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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 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 And with it, there emerged an acid countercurrent.—David Van Biema, Time, 31 Dec. 2022 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 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
In a travel landscape where nearly every detail can be planned, controlled, and optimized, a quiet countertrend is emerging—one that celebrates the unknown.
The music is by acclaimed tenor, composer and musicologist Jeremy Dutcher, a member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation).
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Jennie Punter,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
Sacrifice captures the tenor of these high-end charity events that are attended by the famous and ultra-wealthy, and have a tendency to land somewhere between tone-deaf to hopelessly self-congratulatory.
Natural light and palm trees cover the space, despite the Midwest’s propensity for freezing winters.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
Tropical cyclones have a greater propensity to rapidly intensify as the planet warms, studies have shown, which could imperil coastal populations that might have prepared for a tropical storm but suddenly face a menacing major hurricane.
Leaders who treat this period as an opportunity to establish alignment, celebrate progress, and embed new habits set their organizations on a trajectory toward lasting ROI.
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Rhett Power,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adults who have trouble sleeping or don’t maintain healthy sleeping habits can often trace those issues back to their first few months of life, says Golshevky.
In due course the informality and loosening of the customs around dressing would take people all the way to grunge and eventually, in the new millennium, put CEOs of multimillion-dollar companies in hoodies.
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Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
For all the talk of conflicting values, the Tesla Diner has assimilated effortlessly into the local custom of charging fries separately from the burger.
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