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Okay - so I had to look up "polemic" in an English dictionary. (Sigh...) It would help my Spanish if I were actually good at speaking English. Anyway - I was getting asking if it was a passive sentence construction. You're saying it's not ... but that someone/something weasled its/his way out of this dispute. So if one of my students wanted to argue with me about a grading policy, I could "salgo del paso de las polémicas" to avoid the conversation that I know will be adversarial.... ??