antipodean

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Recent Examples of antipodean Later, the same man sent me a sticker book full of antipodean animals. Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antipodean
Adjective
  • The response from Putin, coming almost 24 hours after the US sanctions announcement, was somewhat contradictory.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The people—the Americans—whose stories are told across ’s 12 hours were as complex and contradictory as anyone alive today.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Biden Administration's contrary position depended on the obvious fallacy that providing testosterone to treat a boy's endocrine disorder is the 'same treatment' as using the drug to disrupt the normal physical development of an adolescent girl suffering from psychological distress.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Franco and Colell are known for their dramas, plumbing complex, contrary intimacy.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While black tea and spices in chai tea can help control blood sugar, the high sugar content in many popular presentations usually has the opposite effect.
    Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Yet the photographs themselves—for instance those of resistance leaders such as Sitting Bull—have an opposite effect.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Antipodean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antipodean. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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