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- noun Plural form of
countertrend .
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Examples
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And we think the Democratic ascendancy and our eyeballs in D.C. are valuable enough, when we crack into that market, that I think that we have kind of countertrends to the general market.
TPM sees room for growth through geotargeted advertising » Nieman Journalism Lab 2008
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Saving the Entertainment Sector from Googlization: Some aspects of the new Google regime are no doubt inevitable, but there are countertrends such as high-quality pay channels that can be encouraged.
Nathan Newman: How the Googlization of Television Will Destroy High Wage, Union Hollywood Nathan Newman 2012
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Wisconsin, narrowly Democratic in 2000 and 2004, is a cauldron of unpredictable countertrends.
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States Larry J. Sabato 2011
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Saving the Entertainment Sector from Googlization: Some aspects of the new Google regime are no doubt inevitable, but there are countertrends such as high-quality pay channels that can be encouraged.
Nathan Newman: How the Googlization of Television Will Destroy High Wage, Union Hollywood Nathan Newman 2012
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Mentions countertrends as well, such as the small percentage of female Federation presidents or senior women rabbis of large congregations and, among the Orthodox, the revival of abandoned customs that separate out women.
Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America. 2009
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For the high court, it's a towering challenge: distilling all these trends and countertrends into some broad constitutional rule — for a public that increasingly seems to like the idea of capital punishment more than the reality of it.
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Offsetting these environmentally destructive trends are countertrends, most prominently urbanization of an erstwhile rural population and the establishment of protected areas, already amounting to nearly 40 percent of the Brazilian Amazon.
'The Green vs. the Brown Amazon': An Exchange London, Mark 2007
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If there are heartening countertrends to the past decade of élite failure, they're the tremendous outpouring of grass-roots activism across the political spectrum and the remarkable surge in institutional innovation, much of it facilitated by the Internet.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Progressive 2010
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If there are heartening countertrends to the past decade of élite failure, they're the tremendous outpouring of grass-roots activism across the political spectrum and the remarkable surge in institutional innovation, much of it facilitated by the Internet.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Progressive 2010
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If there are heartening countertrends to the past decade of élite failure, they're the tremendous outpouring of grass-roots activism across the political spectrum and the remarkable surge in institutional innovation, much of it facilitated by the Internet.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Progressive 2010
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