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

It's antagonistic, but it is also kind of diametric in that she is insisting, "This is my presence," and he knows she is not being honest with herself.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022

We may lay it down as an axiom, in diametric opposition to Rousseau, that inequalities are natural, equalities artificial.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.