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Recent Examples of countercurrent
Key features include a sun deck, with a large pool with countercurrent jets and a Jacuzzi, and five balconies and sea terraces, one of which connects to a lower deck guest cabin.
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Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2025
The arrangement functions as a countercurrent heat exchanger, warming blood in the veins and cooling blood in the arteries.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Similarly underdeveloped is any discussion of countercurrents from the right, which underwent its own midcentury cultural and intellectual renaissance.
—Beverly Gage, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
And with it, there emerged an acid countercurrent.
—David Van Biema, Time, 31 Dec. 2022
These birds rely on what’s called a countercurrent exchange to keep their feet from freezing.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2023
Everything down to a layer of fat under their paw pads to keep their feet from freezing and a specialized circulatory mechanism called a countercurrent heat exchanger.
—oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2023
While tech venture funding falters and big tech companies contract, a countercurrent is pushing new kinds of technology into the global economy, promising a paroxysm of productivity unseen since the advent of the Internet.
—Sylvain Duranton, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
This countercurrent heat exchange allows the core of the body to remain warm while limiting heat loss when the extremities are cold, but not so cold that tissue damage occurs.
—Bridget B. Baker, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2019
Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2025
The arrangement functions as a countercurrent heat exchanger, warming blood in the veins and cooling blood in the arteries.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Similarly underdeveloped is any discussion of countercurrents from the right, which underwent its own midcentury cultural and intellectual renaissance.
—Beverly Gage, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
And with it, there emerged an acid countercurrent.
—David Van Biema, Time, 31 Dec. 2022
These birds rely on what’s called a countercurrent exchange to keep their feet from freezing.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2023
Everything down to a layer of fat under their paw pads to keep their feet from freezing and a specialized circulatory mechanism called a countercurrent heat exchanger.
—oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2023
While tech venture funding falters and big tech companies contract, a countercurrent is pushing new kinds of technology into the global economy, promising a paroxysm of productivity unseen since the advent of the Internet.
—Sylvain Duranton, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
This countercurrent heat exchange allows the core of the body to remain warm while limiting heat loss when the extremities are cold, but not so cold that tissue damage occurs.
—Bridget B. Baker, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countercurrent
Noun
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This average hid an important countertrend.—
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2023
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Yet as Andrés Spokoiny, president and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, explains, NJPS also gave rise to a countertrend: deliberate policies of welcoming and attracting intermarried families.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
sun-sentinel.com,
11 May 2021
Noun
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Of course, efficient collaboration starts at the top, with the tenor set by an organization’s executive leaders.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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In an age where party extremes dominate, such whiplash has become the dominant tenor of our political system.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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With decades of business and clinical leadership, his relentlessness and propensity for disruption have galvanized Vituity in its mission to improve as many lives as humanly possible.—
Forbes Press Releases,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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But the propensity to characterize Biden’s time in office as a flop is especially problematic.—
John Cassidy,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The thrumming bass undercurrent, rising like some dread unknown beneath it all.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The stalemate continues, but the threatening undercurrent suggests this may not last.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Instead, several scenes are given over to her wacky habit of posting too much info on Facebook.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
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Research has shown that a person's dietary habits are closely linked to the composition of their gut microbiome.—
Cristina Mutchler,
Health,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Philip Vijay Dorsett, who owned and operated a custom car audio business, ended his life Jan. 15.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Jan. 2025
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The interior is decked out in custom metal shelving with digital price tags carrying a wide variety of spirits.—
Matthew Geiger,
The Denver Post,
25 Jan. 2025
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Regression to the mean is a universal undertow in sports and in life.—
Jordan Brenner,
The Athletic,
14 July 2024
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Blackness tugs at the corners of her vision, an undertow from every direction.—
Benjamin VanHoose,
People.com,
9 Oct. 2024
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“Countercurrent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countercurrent. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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