How to Use run counter to in a Sentence

run counter to

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Definition of run counter tonext
  • And that is the one thing that is going to run counter to that.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • That may run counter to what the doom-meisters are telling you.
    — Moneyshow, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There are other actions that seem to run counter to the rosy outlook.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The findings run counter to the idea that suppressed memories lurk in the subconscious.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But other actions have run counter to that spirit of openness.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune Asia, 20 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Today’s lack of buying in these 3 majors would seem to run counter to that narrative.
    — John Navin, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Even worse are the practices of hegemony and bullying, which run counter to the tide of history.
    — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Any knowledge that Midge rejected that money would run counter to their ends.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Mortgage rates tend to run counter to demand for U.S. government bonds.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • DeSantis's comments run counter to what the Israel Defense Forces have said as well.
    — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Both sets of changes cut benefits and run counter to the sharp and ongoing decline in U.S. life expectancy.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Current historic rules run counter to how our city’s neighborhoods can thrive and reinvent.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Kevin Erickson, head of the Future of Music Coalition, says such schemes run counter to the basic promise of streaming.
    — Ron Knox, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021
  • More troublingly, the programs often run counter to the ethos of academic inquiry.
    — Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • LeBlanc’s tastes, meanwhile, run counter to the generally rootsy tenor of live music in rural West Marin.
    — Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • And the decisions run counter to what CEOs, traditionally, expect to do.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 8 June 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
  • The school's activities, including the all-female Zohra orchestra, run counter to the Taliban's austere and harsh rule.
    — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • So the attention the Biden campaign is devoting to a reliably blue state might appear to run counter to the need to hit competitive states that will be crucial in the 2024 election.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Apple is said to be working on touchscreen Macs, though this would run counter to over a decade of vociferous public objection to the very idea of touchscreens in computers.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • At a time in which we are called to work together, forced medical procedures run counter to our collective sense of fairness and liberty.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Their findings run counter to the traditional idea that a black hole dines on its accretion disk in a relatively leisurely manner.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023

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