diametric

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

But the nirvana many authorities assume teen life would be if unsullied by screens is the diametric opposite of teens’ reality.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2024

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

And the most incomprehensible of all was the diametric opposition of men from the same neighborhood, in their views of the same subject.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.