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Recent Examples of countercurrentAt the same time, a countercurrent is gaining momentum—one rooted in indigenous knowledge systems, farmer autonomy, and land stewardship.—Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 Key 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
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
While the amount of practice and the tenor of coaching staffs throughout the NFL have made for a much easier experience overall, the quality of play in the first month of the regular season has taken a huge hit.
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Steve Silverman,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
Based on industry best practices, NVDA's characteristics, and your objectives, the following delta and tenor are recommended: Choosing a strike One way to identify a suitable strike is by using an options delta.
The marginal propensity to reuse, enabled by secure hyperscaler platforms and guided by FinOps practices, offers a blueprint for scaling AI economically across agencies.
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Sandeep Shilawat,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
The shooting was examined in a two-year investigation by this news organization on the propensity of police to use serious and deadly force on mentally ill and intoxicated people; Nguyen had a history of mental illness and was experiencing a psychiatric crisis when he was killed.
Unlike fMRI, which requires subjects to remain stationary, the helmet monitors the brain as subjects are walking and talking (accompanied by a custom mobile fUSi acquisition cart).
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ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 June 2025
What started nearly 35 years ago as a one-man operation in a modest shop has since evolved into a thriving manufacturing powerhouse, specializing in custom metal parts, CNC milling, metal stamping, and sheet metal fabrication.
But there is plenty of story left on the table for the Buckleys, who are only now getting their footing in the undertow of the coastal criminal element.
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Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
20 June 2025
In a statement, Gov. Jared Polis blamed policy from Washington, D.C., for creating an undertow on Colorado’s economy.
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