poles apart
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"Both, poles apart in genre, did great business," he said.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
He thinks the story has caught people's attention because the two styles of music are "poles apart".
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2023
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
“We were poles apart tonight . . . the quality of their kicking game, the quality of their skill-set, we just really battled to deal with.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2020
More tenaciously in earnest and more austere in every way than Mrs. Swynnerton, her work is as the poles apart.
From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Sparrow, Walter Shaw
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