counterfactual

Example Sentences

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It’s a choice that holds up well against a counterfactual life given over to hobbies and travel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

That effacement tries to create a counterfactual absurdity.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2025

We can't be certain because the results depend heavily on the method chosen by researchers for measuring the "counterfactual", i.e what would have happened to UK exports had the country stayed in the EU.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

These so-called counterfactual scenarios are alternative possibilities for past events, i.e. scenarios that did not occur but could have happened.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

For one thing, his hyperbole was plainly counterfactual.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2023