diametric

Example Sentences

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“Then Covid hit, and there was a diametric change.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

We used small moments, like both men washing their children’s dinner plates, to help us show the shared humanity of people who are diametric opposites.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023

What followed in the 2013-14 series against England was the diametric opposite - one of the most intimidating fast-bowling performances of all time.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2023

In “Summer, 1976” — David Auburn’s bittersweet, comic memory play — that means their mothers, diametric opposites, will be hanging out a lot, too.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

We may lay it down as an axiom, in diametric opposition to Rousseau, that inequalities are natural, equalities artificial.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.