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Recent Examples of countercurrentKey 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.—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
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.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll,
sun-sentinel.com,
11 May 2021
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.
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Forbes Press Releases,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
But the propensity to characterize Biden’s time in office as a flop is especially problematic.
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