counterfactual

Example Sentences

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For projects claiming to avoid emissions, it's difficult to prove the counterfactual: Would a given forest really have been cut down without the offset project?

From Salon

Like Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America,” this is a mighty work of counterfactual history.

From New York Times

However, the counterfactual estimates do not include the economic effects associated with the war in Ukraine.

From BBC

As it turns out, the counterfactual outcome is being decided for us.

From Seattle Times

House Republicans released a “report” on the Jan. 6 insurrection this week with a counterfactual narrative in which Trump merely encouraged his supporters to march “peacefully” on the Capitol.

From Washington Post