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Recent Examples of counterfactual
From those counterfactual questions, the adult Roth spun a tour de force of memory and history.
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New York Times, 8 July 2024
This willingness or compulsion to present claims that are utterly counterfactual has set Trump apart from conventional candidates.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 14 Sep. 2024
While Uber has disputed my findings on driver pay cuts and increasing profit margins, the company has declined to disclose relevant counterfactual data.
—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
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New York Times, 8 July 2024
This willingness or compulsion to present claims that are utterly counterfactual has set Trump apart from conventional candidates.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 14 Sep. 2024
While Uber has disputed my findings on driver pay cuts and increasing profit margins, the company has declined to disclose relevant counterfactual data.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterfactual
Adjective
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Those have included other deportations to third countries and the erroneous deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran who had lived in Maryland for roughly 14 years working and raising a family.—
Julie Carr Smyth,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2025
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Those have included other deportations to third countries and the erroneous deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran who had lived as a legal U.S. resident in Maryland for 14 years while working and raising a family.—
Julie Carr Smyth,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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Both Lewis and Johnson have said that the story is untrue.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
12 May 2025
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But a representative for Henry Taylor, the artist who collaborated with Pharrell Williams on Lisa's look, told Vulture that the speculation is wholly untrue.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
7 May 2025
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The document discovery in those cases revealed that France had been untruthful during the NFLPA arbitration process.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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During the trial, prosecutors showed videos of the multiple interviews Troconis had with law enforcement and accused her of being untruthful about Farber Dulos’ disappearance.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2025
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The viewer doesn’t hold all that much sway over Stefan’s outcomes, but the illusory nature of free will is part of the point Bandersnatch is trying to make.—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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But in the case of Sudan’s current civil war, any hope that negotiations, if they can be started, will result in lasting peace is illusory.—
Mai Hassan,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Scheme To carry out the fraud scheme, the defendants and their co-conspirators created fictitious employers and lists of alleged employees—those lists were generated using personally identifiable information (PII) gleaned from thousands of identity theft victims.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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When Noah Wyle reunited with ER producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill to make HBO Max’s The Pitt, the plan was to offer a realistic portrayal of healthcare today through the lens of harried pros working in a fictitious Pittsburgh hospital.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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Sure, scouting and player development is the most inexact of sciences and baseball history is replete with unexpected breakouts.—
Andrew Baggarly,
The Athletic,
15 Aug. 2024
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Estimating the size of a gathering is an inexact science.—
Susanna Timmons,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Ortega also explained that her age makes people assume an inaccurate sense of naiveté.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
28 May 2025
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But this is inaccurate as grid-scale storage batteries (BESS) can resolve this problem.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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The fallacious notion that truth is in the eye of the beholder.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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Unfortunately, the Trump Administration, in its tariff policy, has embraced a framework that is basically fallacious and certain to lead to destructive policy that benefits nobody, including Americans.—
Nathan Lewis,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Counterfactual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterfactual. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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