"prevailing currents" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is typically used to reference forces at work that have a significant influence on a given situation. For example, "The prevailing currents of the digital revolution have changed the way we communicate."
He relies on proprietary computer models to chart tides in the markets and to ride the prevailing currents.
The prevailing currents then carry most of this iron north, leaving the waters to the south with less.
The prevailing currents cause flotsam from around the world to accumulate in a vast becalmed patch of ocean.
In the past 30 years they have managed to place themselves with astonishingly consistent clumsiness, athwart of the prevailing currents of moral sympathy.
In many cases, the student butchers are sailing the prevailing currents of contemporary food culture — local, sustainable agriculture, farm-to-table eating — to their logical end-point.
With the European council made up of ministers from each member state, it often simply reflects the prevailing currents in European politics.
Mr. Hartford opened it in 1964 as a showcase for 19th- and 20th-century work that went against the prevailing current of Abstract Expressionism, which he detested.
"Also, these houses do not conform to the prevailing current taste in suburban houses, which is increasingly large, basically traditional-style buildings".
The horny axes are often orientated in complex branches set in one plane, so that the coral forms a feeding net across a prevailing current.
This doesn't mean all Americans, or even all suburban Americans, think alike, simply that there is a prevailing current to national life that you feel when you come here from other places with other currents.
In the offices of one new party, Al-Watan, the Nation or Homeland, its leader Mohamed Jegham said there was a prevailing current in Tunisia since the revolution "and we can't go against the current".
