Definition of "polemicize" [polemicize]

• To write or deliver an argument; engage in disputation or controversy. (verb-intransitive)

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• "But the Pope does not want to polemicize and highlights again, with absolute non-constraint, that from the beginning his pontificate wanted to have as an absolute priority that established by Jesus for the Successor of Peter, namely "to make God present in this world and to open to men the access to God", in a world in which "God disappears from the horizon of men"."
• "There are exceptions, of course, and you can see those anchors squirm as the new journalists wax, rant and polemicize."
• "But here I go, succumbing to my great passion and starting to polemicize."