How to Use run counter to in a Sentence

run counter to

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• That may run counter to what the doom-meisters are telling you.
  — Moneyshow, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• And that is the one thing that is going to run counter to that.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 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
• There are other actions that seem to run counter to the rosy outlook.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• But other actions have run counter to that spirit of openness.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune Asia, 20 Mar. 2024
• Perceptions can only last so long when results run counter to them for long enough.
  — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• Any knowledge that Midge rejected that money would run counter to their ends.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• Adams’ messaging leading up to the election has run counter to most Democrats.
  — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 4 Nov. 2024
• But that depiction appears to run counter to the fact that crime rates overall have shrunk in recent years.
  — Tim Reid, Reuters, 24 Aug. 2025
• Current historic rules run counter to how our city’s neighborhoods can thrive and reinvent.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Today’s lack of buying in these 3 majors would seem to run counter to that narrative.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The findings run counter to the idea that suppressed memories lurk in the subconscious.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
• But those barriers run counter to another goal of the Hartline.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• Choices can also tap into a national mood, or run counter to one in hopes of improving it.
  — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• Even worse are the practices of hegemony and bullying, which run counter to the tide of history.
  — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
• The argument appears to run counter to the world’s experience of war and rape, but the idea got traction.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 July 2024
• Mnookin said doing so would violate state law and run counter to the university's free exchange of ideas.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
• 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
• In an industry that needs visibility, these are the outcomes that run counter to that need.
  — Raj Dhiman, Sourcing Journal, 23 Jan. 2026
• Bercovici said the directive to fire employees seems to run counter to the agency's staffing and resource needs.
  — Chris Arnold, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025
• More troublingly, the programs often run counter to the ethos of academic inquiry.
  — Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• These early claims run counter to a trend in recent years of people delaying their initial benefit claims.
  — Dan Doonan, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These teases run counter to the messaging Grande has been putting out since last year about not doing another album anytime soon.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2026
• The measure won’t repeal the current ban; the next step is lawsuits asking courts to overturn laws that advocates say run counter to the amendment.
  — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 6 Nov. 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
• His statements run counter to the most conclusive scientific evidence to date.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2025