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Definition of Crosscurrents
1. crosscurrent [n] - See also: crosscurrent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crosscurrents
Literary usage of Crosscurrents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"... also working in parallel with engine-driven units and apparently without
setting up crosscurrents sufficient to be at all troublesome. ..."
2. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1906)
"Men's best laid plans become, in the casual crosscurrents of being, the occasion
of their bitterest ..."
3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1913)
"History is too intimately bound up with the course of human affairs ever to be
independent of the crosscurrents, cross-divisions, and contradictions in ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"The different depths and directions of the channels among the islands and the
irregularities of the coast give rise to crosscurrents running to all points ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"... deal of pro and сон. with crosscurrents of experience and opinion. MB. CAVE did
not know why Working-men alone should not put tip with a little ..."
6. New Viewpoints in American History by Arthur Meier Schlesinger (1922)
"The functioning of these crosscurrents and countercurrents of opinion has been
made possible by the solemn guarantees, in the state and federal ..."
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