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Examples
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He looked down at me, choking back his tears and brightening up, but just then the balloon ran into a cross-current, turned half around and lay over.
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This sets up a cross-current: the Universe is getting mixed signals and therefore you experience chaotic, sporadic results.
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This sets up a cross-current: the Universe is getting mixed signals and therefore you experience chaotic, sporadic results.
Stacey Nemour: Mastery of Martial Arts in Sports and Life 2010
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I think it was utterly unimportant to real problems, and as others have mentioned, she managed to not throw Spitzer under the bus, but fine, she got caught in a cross-current on that one.
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Its clarity of line, mellowness of tone, cross-current rhythms, body and depth were all there to bring out the work's burnished beauty, but with an over-arching judiciousness that only a master orchestra and its gifted leader can achieve.
Donna Perlmutter: Doings at Disney Hall: A Tale of Two Orchestras 2009
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We are clearly sailing through a cross-current of some kind, as the motion of the ship has a kind of diagonal stutter to it now.
April 9th, 2007 ceciliatan 2007
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The boatmen lifted strong arms, despite their skinny bodies, and sweating, in the early morning sun, they rowed us cross-current back towards Asi Ghat.
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We need a cross-current of thinking in this country, instead of the usual Tweedledee Tweedledum of “conservative” (translated as reactionary) “versus” “liberal” (really conservative) politics in this country.
Who’s Snooping on You at Work? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In our current historical cross-current, it is not only not good advice, it's horrendous advice that shows no depth of thought.
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It would be an interesting cross-current that could unite, say, members of the Horde and the Alliance in WOW, while diving people in the same race.
Religion in MMOGs 2006
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