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Recent Examples of antipodal The requirements call for at least 18,000 miles of bicycling and for riders to cross two antipodal points — in Wilcox's case, Madrid, Spain, and Wellington, New Zealand. Scott Detrow, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024 These two antipodal scenarios hold distinct implications for where Io’s volcanism ultimately emerges on the moon’s surface. Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023 But the realities of the stage did not match the ideals of his imagination until his encounter with the work of the man who, by any other standards, would have seemed his antipodal foil. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023 Morris intervenes both too little and too much, but the movie somehow still hits a sweet spot in the happy medium of those antipodal failings. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023 As a leader, Hankin was antipodal to Schulman in almost every respect. Ariel Bleicher, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2013 That leaves us with just the upper semicircle and two antipodal points — one at each end of the semicircle. Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023 There’s a South Dip Pole, too, but the North Dip Pole doesn’t have to be antipodal, or diametrically opposed, to it. Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022 If conservatives/liberals are less ignorant, but one of the two is more ignorant, then the result will be that ignorance may correlate with one of the two antipodal viewpoints, even though moderates are the most ignorant. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antipodal
Adjective
  • Such academic collaborations were not contradictory to the North Korean credo of Juche (self-reliance) but rather a means of furthering the resilience capacity of the country’s ecological system which inherently transcends borders.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • The authors noted that both these decreases initially seemed contradictory, as school shootings have increased in the past 25 years.
    Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • On the opposite side of the arcade is the sports bar with a massive screen that towers over diners.
    Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 12 July 2025
  • Alexis Sanchez had a miserable time after moving in the opposite direction to Old Trafford in 2018.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 11 July 2025

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“Antipodal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antipodal. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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