poles apart
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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
I have read accounts by experts and scholars that are poles apart on these matters.
From Salon ● May 21, 2023
The tour was poles apart from luxury safaris with furnished tents and balloon rides over the Serengeti.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Then arose a literary controversy which showed chiefly that our critics were poles apart in their points of view.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long
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