How to Use crosscurrent in a Sentence

crosscurrent

noun

• Those crosscurrents have fractured the Fed.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2025
• Yet in the end so small a boost is easily lost in the crosscurrents that drive economic growth.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• Stagflation risks are back Still, crosscurrents remain.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2026
• Gravity pulls down particles, which then swirl back up with the smallest crosscurrent.
  — Nashia Baker, Martha Stewart, 19 Feb. 2026
• 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 report comes amid a crosscurrent of economic signals.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026
• These crosscurrents of connection add up to a consonance that might almost be mythic.
  — Hermione Hoby, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• The scene captured some of the crosscurrents of Pressley’s remarkable year.
  — Victoria McGrane, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• The concept of trustworthy journalism is right up there in the churning crosscurrents.
  — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• Democrats face powerful crosscurrents in this year’s Senate elections.
  — Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• The trading on Friday was a prime example of the crosscurrents that are confounding investors.
  — Matt Phillips, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Fed policymakers are trying to make sense of other economic crosscurrents as well.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
• 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
• Other crosscurrents may be influencing financial flows as well.
  — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
• Mixed economic signs Investors were also dealt a crosscurrent of economic data.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2026
• Despite all these crosscurrents, the key takeaway is that none of the recent twists and turns has materially changed the index's technical condition.
  — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Paramount Skydance is hoping to close the deal by the end of September, which is ambitious given the crosscurrents in the marketplace.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
• Such ideological crosscurrents within his own party are what McConnell has been trying to surmount.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 23 July 2017
• Holland plays these emotional crosscurrents with exquisite restraint, letting hesitation, guilt, and longing flicker across his face before a single word lands.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 30 Dec. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Cramer said the market’s ability to look past events in the Middle East and focus on other crosscurrents was evident in Monday’s trading session.
  — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026
• 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