Meanings
verbbuck the tide (third-person singular simple present bucks the tide, present participle bucking the tide, simple past and past participle bucked the tide)
present singular third person bucks the tide · participle present bucking the tide · participle past bucked the tide · past bucked the tide
- Synonym of buck the trend.
But it appears Spain bucked the tide, pointed out Jordi Évole, one of Spain’s best-known television personalities on the left.
2023 July 24, Ashifa Kassam, “Vox party’s hardline attitudes appear to have turned off Spanish voters”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: buck the trend
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verbSynonym of buck the trend.
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