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Recent Examples of counterfactual
Tarantino’s counterfactual ingenuity in linking the two fictional performers to the real-life story of the Manson family was weighed down by the sediment of movie-world references, which seemed mostly designed to gratify his swoony fascination with cinematic history and his own place in it.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
Binet playfully imagines a counterfactual history in which the Aztecs and the Incas conquer western Europe.
—Sam Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
When researchers provide independent assessments of Uber’s operations based on third-party information, the company predictably dismisses their validity while refusing to provide a counterfactual rebuttal from its own proprietary data.
—Len Sherman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
Christian Dannecker began his talk with a convoluted disquisition on deforestation curves, counterfactual modelling, and the limitations of NASA satellite data in assessing dryland deforestation.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
Binet playfully imagines a counterfactual history in which the Aztecs and the Incas conquer western Europe.
—Sam Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
When researchers provide independent assessments of Uber’s operations based on third-party information, the company predictably dismisses their validity while refusing to provide a counterfactual rebuttal from its own proprietary data.
—Len Sherman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
Christian Dannecker began his talk with a convoluted disquisition on deforestation curves, counterfactual modelling, and the limitations of NASA satellite data in assessing dryland deforestation.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterfactual
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Between the lines: Republicans have argued vigorously that the apostrophe placed in the transcript is erroneous and that Biden was actually criticizing individual Trump voters.Andrew Solender, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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The billionaire responded to reports that he would not be invited to the U.K.’s investment summit with false claims about the release of prisoners in the country, following a trend of erroneous and inflammatory comments directed at the U.K. in recent months.Chloe Berger, Fortune Europe, 26 Sep. 2024
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In a statement to the Times, Olivet said the allegations were untrue.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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But, according to the Pennsylvania attorney general, Trump's characterization is untrue.Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Our choice is the person who says the most outrageous, offensive and untruthful things, or the person who is subjected to those insults and lies.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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This comes after Adrian Houser was moved to the bullpen after a poor start to the season, after Edwin Diaz was briefly taken out of the closer role and after and Jorge Lopez was designated for assignment for being untruthful and unremorseful in controversial postgame remarks last week.Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
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Fazio has grappled with that challenge while studying the illusory truth effect: how repeating something that is false will make a person more likely to believe it.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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The auction prices and the professorships and even the art hanging on the wall by now seemed illusory.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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To Kaplan, the onscreen romantic chemistry between the two fictitious lead characters, rival booksellers Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly, drew her attention.David Chiu, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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There is a chance that generative AI can make up fictitious facts, often referred to as AI hallucinations, see my coverage at the link here.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement No matter the drug, microdosing is an inexact art.Jackie Snow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Roman allegory — in which Cesar aspires to change his government while fulfilling his creative hubris, enjoying the perks of fickle celebrity — is both inexact and unoriginal.Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
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This is inaccurate, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
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Scott Keeter, senior fellow at the Pew Research Center, that polls in 2020 and 2016 were inaccurate because Trump supporters opt out of surveys due to distrust in institutions like the mainstream media and polling organizations.Martha McHardy, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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But hard evidence in both our nation’s history and our present shows that this reasoning is fallacious.Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
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And why not seek the truth, to give order and organization to a chaotic and fallacious narrative and investigative material?Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
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“Counterfactual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterfactual. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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