How to Use crosscurrent in a Sentence

crosscurrent

noun

• Yet in the end so small a boost is easily lost in the crosscurrents that drive economic growth.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• The scene captured some of the crosscurrents of Pressley’s remarkable year.
  — Victoria McGrane, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Still, the shows that broke through were the ones that attempted to address at least one of the cultural crosscurrents reshaping the world outside.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• Many of these writers, newly adrift in Hollywood’s crosscurrents, turned to their lawyers for help.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• The campaign is restructuring its staff in key early voting states as the 78-year-old Sanders faces crosscurrents that weren’t in play four years ago.
  — Will Weissert, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• What could cut through the political crosscurrents this year is a simple maxim: Asians vote for Asians.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 3 June 2018
• The concept of trustworthy journalism is right up there in the churning crosscurrents.
  — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• The trading on Friday was a prime example of the crosscurrents that are confounding investors.
  — Matt Phillips, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• These crosscurrents of connection add up to a consonance that might almost be mythic.
  — Hermione Hoby, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Tavares, known as a hard-nosed cost-cutter, will also have to navigate the political crosscurrents in France, Italy and the U.S., where the automakers have deep national roots.
  — Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
• The impact of Thursday’s pivotal hearing could depend in no small part on Ms. Katz’s skill in navigating these crosscurrents.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• The fierce maneuvering in the hours leading up to the votes attested to the complex political crosscurrents of the Brexit debate, more than three years after Britons voted to leave the EU.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Set mostly in 2011, the play’s crosscurrents still roil and resonate: wartime grief and guilt, health-care failures, communal complexity and unity.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 18 Jan. 2017
• Analysts said the jump has likely been driven by a crosscurrent of factors that have prompted individual traders to pile in.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 26 May 2021
• Exactly how that is distributed is subject to an overlapping crosscurrent of tax policies whose effects vary from place to place.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2021
• Democrats face powerful crosscurrents in this year’s Senate elections.
  — Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2018
• In other words, this is not only a claustrophobic space typical of the artist, but its very density and crosscurrents convey a sense of trickery, borne out by other key details.
  — John Wilmerding, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
• In between, a matrix of sonic crosscurrents – keyboards, voices, drums, guitar and more keyboards – frantically dance, smash apart and scurry like mice in search of cover.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• The recreational boat industry, which faces retaliatory tariffs ranging from about 10% to 25% on exports to a range of countries, is one example of a sector caught in the crosscurrents.
  — Harriet Torry, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• Within it there may be a multitude of crosscurrents, with some parts moving in one direction at one speed and other areas moving in other directions at other speeds.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2017
• The erotic and psychological crosscurrents among this foursome occupy the play’s second part, which is its most contrived and least convincing.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• Investors also are grappling with the relationship between stock prices and bond yields, as an array of crosscurrents are adding to the uncertainty about the direction of financial markets.
  — Daniel Kruger, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• For a president hit by crosscurrents on policy, Ms. Conway has frequently been a voice reminding him of his campaign promises.
  — Katie Rogers and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• Fed policymakers are trying to make sense of other economic crosscurrents as well.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
• Margin debt climbed to a record high in February, a fresh sign of bullishness for flummoxed investors trying to navigate the political and economic crosscurrents driving markets.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2017
• Such ideological crosscurrents within his own party are what McConnell has been trying to surmount.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 23 July 2017
• Energy markets have been hit by a rare crosscurrent: Demand for oil is withering because of concerns that new coronavirus’s spread will weaken global economic growth.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2020
• Usually, voters in the political crosscurrents, like Drutman’s populists, have to prioritize one of their chief concerns.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 20 June 2017
• The moves highlight the crosscurrents vexing investors at a time of abundant capital and a gradual retreat by policy makers from expansive stimulus.
  — WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
• And two competing crosscurrents of this election — an unpopular Republican in the White House versus an electoral map that puts Democrats at a major disadvantage — could cancel each other out.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2017

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