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Recent Examples of counterfactual
Although her settings seem realistic enough, materially and socially, her dramas are almost like fairy tales, or seemingly counterfactual philosophical abstractions.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
In his counterfactual history, the United States would have sought to keep China weak, poor, and peripheral.
—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2022
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.
—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
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
In his counterfactual history, the United States would have sought to keep China weak, poor, and peripheral.
—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2022
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterfactual
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On the other, her disobedience results from her gullibility and erroneous reason.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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In a statement accompanying its quarterly earnings results, the department store chain said a single employee responsible for small package delivery expense accounting had intentionally created erroneous cost entries from the fourth quarter of 2021 through the third quarter of 2024.Rob Wile, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
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Today, this is simply untrue, as trade industries can’t keep up with the demand.Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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To suggest our agents were anything less than professional in the lawful execution of this search warrant is patently untrue.Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2024
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On Wednesday, the defense attacked Marquez’s credibility, questioning his motives for cooperating with the FBI and grilling him over episodes in his background that might paint him as untruthful.Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
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However, Miranda, Assad, and Arroyo routinely failed in their obligations to cooperate with the investigation by delaying responses, refusing to provide certain information or documents, and providing inconsistent or untruthful responses.Chris Deubert, Forbes, 19 Nov. 2024
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In the two years leading up to the July election, everyday life in Venezuela seemed to be improving, even if only in illusory, unsustainable ways.Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
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Trump, however, defends himself with illusory conspiracy theories, political propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, lies, and character assassination.Thomas Cangelosi, Hartford Courant, 15 Dec. 2024
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To avoid legal repercussions, the crew constructed a series of fake foam tombstones to strategically block real ones, complete with fictitious names that jokingly nodded to the cast and crew.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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Is Eggers’s the scariest because I’m jaded and over-exposed to gory content of all sorts—fictitious or otherwise?Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
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That’s a measure, albeit inexact, of how much extra yield investors are demanding for holding long term what is largely considered the safest debt instrument in the world.Jeff Cox, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
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Isotopic analysis of the elements that make up the ice can give an inexact but useful indication of the temperature at which the ice was formed.Carly Miller, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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However, these decisions also tend to be more inaccurate.Shanna Apitz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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In a deal announced on December 14, ABC News agreed to pay the sum toward Trump's presidential library and issue a public apology in order to settle a defamation lawsuit over inaccurate statements made by anchor George Stephanopoulos during a broadcast earlier this year.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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That will in turn spread on social media, which often plays a disproportional role in boosting these disinformation efforts by providing nearly unlimited platforms for unfiltered content and fallacious and deceptive claims.Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 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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“Counterfactual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterfactual. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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