to buck the trend
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6.9
- phrasal verb
:
ir en contra de la tendencia
- Perhaps this year Fort Loramie can buck the trend and stage a deep playoff run.
- try to buck the trend
And you know, despite the fact that there is this penalty on scientists who buck the trend, put it mildly.
- And you know, despite the fact that there is this penalty on scientists who buck the trend, put it mildly.
Examples
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Many small businesses are bucking the trend by choosing to go green and implement sustainable practices.
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One airline bucking the trend is the Seattle-based Alaska.
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But the one country that bucks the trend on that you might say is the UK, because we voted.
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Yeah, well, I'm sure I can buck the trend.
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Every once in a while, there are games like GoldenEye that buck the trend.
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Only Indonesia and Ecuador managed to buck the trend.
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They hope to buck the trend tonight by finishing off the trip with a second straight victory.
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I know with this decision we are bucking the trend, but when you think about it, there really isn't a choice.
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Coach and Luxottica bucked the trend, both posting better-than-expected sales growth in the last quarter.
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Even some socialites continued to buck the trend, most famously Coco Chanel, who wore white year-round.
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Synonyms
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3.3
To act against a rule, law, or popular opinion
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6.7
To resist what most people in power want
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5.3
To do something in a new way instead of the usual way
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7.4
To do something very different from what most people expect or usually do
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'buck' (to resist) combined with 'trend' (prevailing direction) directly yields the meaning 'resist the prevailing trend', so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE. The article 'the' is non-problematic and the construction parallels common patterns like 'go against the trend', making it compositional and predictable.
Etymology
Buck the trend may come from the picture of an animal that bucks, jumping and fighting to move the other way, while a trend is the usual direction people or things follow. So to buck the trend means 'to do something different from most people'.