"crosscurrent" in the noun sense
1. rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent
a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
2. countercurrent, crosscurrent
actions counter to the main group activity
"political crosscurrents disrupted the conference"
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