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Recent Examples of counterfactual
While Uber has disputed my findings on driver pay cuts and increasing profit margins, the company has declined to disclose relevant counterfactual data.
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Len Sherman, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
Although her settings seem realistic enough, materially and socially, her dramas are almost like fairy tales, or seemingly counterfactual philosophical abstractions.
—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
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Len Sherman, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
Although her settings seem realistic enough, materially and socially, her dramas are almost like fairy tales, or seemingly counterfactual philosophical abstractions.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterfactual
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The Trump administration’s focus on the false narrative that Politico received USAID funds follows an erroneous claim by Kyle Becker, a conservative political commentator, on Wednesday.—
Liam Reilly,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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If the cost looks erroneous, please email content@bayareanewsgroup.com for more information.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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While Kennedy claimed in his confirmation hearings — and again, in a Fox News interview after being sworn in — that ACIP members are rife with conflicts of interest, those who have overseen or participated on the committee in the past say this is untrue.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
15 Feb. 2025
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Sean Combs' legal team also celebrated the dismissal, stressing that the accusations were untrue.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement on June 1 was terribly misguided, and his justification for doing so was misleading and untruthful.—
Robert N. Stavins,
Foreign Affairs,
5 June 2017
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What is more untruthful: A thing written down, or a sustained deception of the heart?—
Nicolette Polek,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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But that moment of enjoyment is only a brief, illusory respite from Ahmet’s laborious responsibilities herding sheep and caring for his kid brother Naim (Agush Agushev), the picture of innocence and adorableness, who hasn’t spoken since their mother died.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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Exploring the theme of alternate worlds, Lynch thrusts Madison into an illusory realm inhabited by killers, drug dealers and pornographers by merging his identity into that of young mechanic named Pete Dayton.—
Billy J. Stratton,
The Conversation,
17 Jan. 2025
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Created by Chris Romano and Eric Falconer, who also are believed to be back for the sequel, Blue Mountain State is about a fictitious university, Blue Mountain State, and its football team, the Mountain Goats.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025
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Last month, its editor revealed that A.I. had been used to tweak the Hungarian accents of its stars, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, and to create fictitious architectural plans and buildings for the closing retrospective of the main character’s career.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2025
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Projecting value seven years in advance is inexact, but based on current deals for multi-team arenas, those naming rights could be worth $25 million to $35 million per year, according to sponsorship consultant Eric Smallwood, president of Apex Marketing Group.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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Schoen might have uncovered a formula to conquer the inexact science of the draft as his staff gains experience together.—
Dan Duggan,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
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Maybe the most contentious issue ever to divide these two camps is whether or not to replace notoriously inaccurate human home plate umpires with less fallible machines.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
21 Feb. 2025
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A lot of us in the field, regardless of speciality, like to poke fun at how inaccurate things are depicted on television.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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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 1 Mar. 2025.
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