counterintuitive
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Long before Cherny pressed send on that fateful message, Anthropic’s founders had chosen a counterintuitive strategy that would come to define the company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
The idea that convection can occur within an ice sheet may seem counterintuitive at first.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
The energy finding seems counterintuitive, but by Barclays’ math, energy stocks are already trading as though crude were selling for more than $100 a barrel.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
“There’s a supply-and-demand dynamic that sometimes produces counterintuitive results,” said Samir Shah, chief executive of CareScout, which has a tool that is searchable by zip code to help pinpoint cost estimates.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026
There is something profoundly counterintuitive in the definition of stickiness that emerges from all these examples.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
