poles apart
Example Sentences
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"Both, poles apart in genre, did great business," he said.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
However, being ranked alongside meerkats and beavers doesn't mean our societies are the same - human society is poles apart.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
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
In principles and tactics they were poles apart, and the bitterness between them was at fever heat.
From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert
