antipodes
Example Sentences
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It’s unclear who Tony’s peers might be on the internet, but it’s clear who his antipodes are.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2024
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 • Aug. 17, 2022
He stands at the antipodes of the poem’s heroic world: ugly, misshapen, ill-spoken, and filled with spite toward his leaders and betters.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2016
The latest straws in the wind come from the world’s antipodes.
From Economist • Mar. 5, 2015
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.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
