counterintuitive
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After a blistering run last year, the Select Stoxx Europe Aerospace & Defense exchange-traded fund has counterintuitively fallen 15% since the Iran war started three months ago.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The most important, counterintuitively, is that China is much, much poorer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
The predicament those in the hemp business find themselves in is that they’re stuck between both the alcohol lobby and, perhaps counterintuitively, the state-level marijuana lobby.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025
And Lee argues the market has other sentiment-based pillars of support, right now, notably, and counterintuitively, the American Association of Individual Investors survey that showed the proportion of net bulls fell 12.7 this past week.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 17, 2025
And perhaps counterintuitively, both seasons led to a tourism boom in the filming locations.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025
Vocabulary lists containing counterintuitive
Against All Odds: Contra and Counter
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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"Marita's Bargain," Vocabulary from the essay
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