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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
Adopt or maintain healthy habits: Stress and illness can trigger allergic asthma.
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Verywell Health,
Verywell Health,
9 Apr. 2025
Through adapting to changing work cultures and embracing healthier work habits, professionals can create a more fulfilling and sustainable balance between work and life.
Better yet, the superstar—who recently graved our TV screens on The White Lotus—worked with stylist Brett Alan Nelson to deliver custom outfits for the set.
This 100% Chenin from Minus Tide, made from old-vine grapes, offers a tinge of honey on the nose with wild and savory herbs in the undertow.
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Lana Bortolot,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Out on Astralwerks, the song’s bouncy, singsong vibe juxtaposes with kind of bittersweet lyrics, with the theme also reflected in the track’s undertow of a bassline.
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