counterculture
noun
coun·ter·cul·ture
ˈkau̇n-tər-ˌkəl-chər 
: a culture with values and mores that run counter to those of established society
Examples of counterculture in a Sentence
the counterculture of the hippies
He was part of the antiwar counterculture.
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.
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Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
The ’60s counterculture sometimes pretended to be about that (and occasionally was), but that’s not really what the ’60s were about.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
In other words, the vast majority of those who’ve come in contact with Pynchon’s work are college graduates who enter through Oedipa Maas, a California housewife turned counterculture detective.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
By the late sixties, the counterculture was beginning to break into prime-time television.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
The ’60s counterculture sometimes pretended to be about that (and occasionally was), but that’s not really what the ’60s were about.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
In other words, the vast majority of those who’ve come in contact with Pynchon’s work are college graduates who enter through Oedipa Maas, a California housewife turned counterculture detective.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
By the late sixties, the counterculture was beginning to break into prime-time television.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for counterculture
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“Counterculture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counterculture. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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