crosscurrent

Example Sentences

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Biden’s reelection bid comes as the nation weathers uncertain economic crosscurrents.

From Seattle Times

Yet another class of Twitter users seemed caught between cultural crosscurrents on Thursday.

From Washington Post

We need art to register the ways in which we are instead overshadowed by unknown, hulking forces, thwarted by crosscurrents and continually off-kilter.

From Washington Post

And the band’s martial drums, chiming guitars and inexorable crescendos create arena-size superstructures filled with rhythmic — and emotional — crosscurrents.

From New York Times

Chien-Shiung grew up in the crosscurrents of Chinese nationalism and the New Culture Movement that criticized traditional Confucian values.

From Scientific American