On this page you'll find 3 example sentences with Controversialist. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as disputant or eristic and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Controversialist in a sentence
Controversialist meaning
One who regularly engages in public controversies.
Using Controversialist
- The main meaning on this page is: One who regularly engages in public controversies.
- Useful related words include: disputant, eristic, person, individual.
- In the example corpus, controversialist often appears in combinations such as: the controversialist.
Context around Controversialist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Controversialist
- In this selection, "controversialist" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, arguments, first and joseph stand out and add context to how "controversialist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include memoir the controversialist arguments with and the controversialist first came. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "controversialist" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with controversialist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Controversialist: First came the disastrous Epstein interview. (8 words)
Marty Peretz’s new memoir, “The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center,” takes us back to a time when intellectual rigor, civil discourse and vigorous debate ruled the day. (31 words)
She was compared with such leading lights as the theologian and controversialist Joseph Priestley and Paine, whose Rights of Man (1791) would prove to be the most popular of the responses to Burke. (33 words)
She was compared with such leading lights as the theologian and controversialist Joseph Priestley and Paine, whose Rights of Man (1791) would prove to be the most popular of the responses to Burke. (33 words)
Marty Peretz’s new memoir, “The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center,” takes us back to a time when intellectual rigor, civil discourse and vigorous debate ruled the day. (31 words)
The Controversialist: First came the disastrous Epstein interview. (8 words)
Example sentences (3)
Marty Peretz’s new memoir, “The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center,” takes us back to a time when intellectual rigor, civil discourse and vigorous debate ruled the day.
The Controversialist: First came the disastrous Epstein interview.
She was compared with such leading lights as the theologian and controversialist Joseph Priestley and Paine, whose Rights of Man (1791) would prove to be the most popular of the responses to Burke.
Common combinations with controversialist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: