antipodes

Example Sentences

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These two locales — one urban, one rural — would form the antipodes of his work.

From New York Times

The news from the antipodes helped provide direction to markets that had been drifting ahead of the release of minutes of the U.S.

From Reuters

One conservative – that Islam and Christianity are antipodes.

From Salon

I sometimes sign my emails to National Geographic editors, “Yours from the antipodes,” because that’s how it feels to be so distant from the centers of American and European influence.

From National Geographic

As one Columbia University sociologist who travelled to the antipodes to study “the social experiment of Australia” remarked, the world’s newest nation “has worked out a unique and interesting experiment in democracy”.

From The Guardian