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antipodes

noun as in opposite

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

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

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One conservative – that Islam and Christianity are antipodes.

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Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507, the first to include the name ‘America’, the first to show the New World as, in effect, a new continent, and the first to show antipodes.

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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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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