counterfactual
Example Sentences
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Negative news sells, but I’m not sure counterfactual financial lessons always have the same effect.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
EEA studies compare an event's characteristics, such as its probability and intensity in the current climate, to a "counterfactual" world without human-caused emissions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
He repeatedly invokes counterfactual arguments to insist that without guns there would have been no Industrial Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
That effacement tries to create a counterfactual absurdity.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 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
