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
These two locales — one urban, one rural — would form the antipodes of his work.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
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 discovery of antipodes led straight to the concept of the terraqueous globe; but Copernicanism did not lead directly to the view that all planets shine by reflected light—the telescope had to intervene.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
