How to Use run counter to in a Sentence

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• And that is the one thing that is going to run counter to that.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
• That may run counter to what the doom-meisters are telling you.
  — Moneyshow, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• There are other actions that seem to run counter to the rosy outlook.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• Phil felt that to do so would have run counter to his sister’s wishes to be left alone.
  — Howard Fishman, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
• Phil felt that to do so would have run counter to his sister’s wishes to be left alone.
  — Howard Fishman, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
• In the business of health care, the drive for profits can run counter to the goal of helping patients, critics say.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
• Which would seem to run counter to their decision to pass on O’Cyrus Torrence in the second round.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• Which would seem to run counter to their decision to pass on O’Cyrus Torrence in the second round.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• The findings run counter to the idea that suppressed memories lurk in the subconscious.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
• But other actions have run counter to that spirit of openness.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune Asia, 20 Mar. 2024
• Third, the unions assert that fears of employment and unions destroying college sports run counter to the role played by unions in pro sports.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 June 2024
• Today’s lack of buying in these 3 majors would seem to run counter to that narrative.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Even worse are the practices of hegemony and bullying, which run counter to the tide of history.
  — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
• Any knowledge that Midge rejected that money would run counter to their ends.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• Mortgage rates tend to run counter to demand for U.S. government bonds.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• DeSantis's comments run counter to what the Israel Defense Forces have said as well.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2023
• But those barriers run counter to another goal of the Hartline.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• Doing so would run counter to Biden’s goal of decarbonizing the nation’s electric sector by the middle of the next decade.
  — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2024
• Both sets of changes cut benefits and run counter to the sharp and ongoing decline in U.S. life expectancy.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Current historic rules run counter to how our city’s neighborhoods can thrive and reinvent.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Kevin Erickson, head of the Future of Music Coalition, says such schemes run counter to the basic promise of streaming.
  — Ron Knox, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021
• More troublingly, the programs often run counter to the ethos of academic inquiry.
  — Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• LeBlanc’s tastes, meanwhile, run counter to the generally rootsy tenor of live music in rural West Marin.
  — Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Critics, however, say such plans run counter to the intention of the federal aid and could be used on learning loss instead.
  — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2022
• And the decisions run counter to what CEOs, traditionally, expect to do.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 8 June 2023
• Fresh ideas are emerging about the ways such disorders get started, ideas that run counter to a century of medical dogma.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• The school's activities, including the all-female Zohra orchestra, run counter to the Taliban's austere and harsh rule.
  — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
• So the attention the Biden campaign is devoting to a reliably blue state might appear to run counter to the need to hit competitive states that will be crucial in the 2024 election.
  — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• But the displays of affection run counter to a shifting narrative surrounding Jill.
  — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
• Apple is said to be working on touchscreen Macs, though this would run counter to over a decade of vociferous public objection to the very idea of touchscreens in computers.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024