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

As sheltered as my life had been, his life had been the diametric opposite.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021

Inside the latter is a meridian circle, at right angles to which is a graduated colure; then the equator, apparently a double ring, and the ecliptic; also two diametric bars.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry