poles apart
Example Sentences
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"Both, poles apart in genre, did great business," he said.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
But with the candidates' backgrounds and policy proposals poles apart, voters will have to decide what kind of change they want before they cast their ballots in the run-off election on 19 June.
From BBC • May 30, 2022
Avocados are “perceived as something healthy, and the contrast to what it is actually doing” to the environment and society, “you couldn’t get further, it’s poles apart, it’s absolutely not,” McMahon said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022
Halberstam, in a phone interview, described being filmed by Pendleton as a kind of adventure, an intimate process poles apart from conventional documentary.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021
"What a person imagines he hears, and what the speaker has really implied, may be poles apart," he said.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
