Examples of counterexample in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Jack Avedon thought his son was soft and overly sensitive, and provided a grim counterexample by dumping Avedon’s mother and refusing to support her. — Scott Eyman, WSJ, "‘What Becomes a Legend Most’ Review: Avedon’s Vision," 11 Dec. 2020 The counterexample that demonstrates the genius of his approach is France. — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, "Self-Interest Is Not Enough: Lincoln’s Classical Revision of the Founding," 18 Sep. 2020 The Nevada case, then, provides a counterexample to that. — Andrew Joseph, STAT, "Scientists are reporting several cases of Covid-19 reinfection — but the implications are complicated," 28 Aug. 2020 But a counterexample is electric-car manufacturer Tesla, which received a $465 million federal loan in 2010 and went on to achieve considerable success. — Washington Post, "To counter China, some Republicans are abandoning free-market orthodoxy," 26 Aug. 2020 Matt Ruff, meanwhile, poses an interesting counterexample to that trio of writers, because Ruff, who is white, penned a book about Black life that passes whatever the racial version of the Bechdel Test is. — Peter Rubin, Wired, "Lovecraft Country Is a Necessary Re-Imagining of Genre Fiction," 17 Aug. 2020 But just a single counterexample can prove a theory false. — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, "The False Logic behind Science Denial," 1 Aug. 2020 This is not to say there aren’t counterexamples and gray areas. — Jack Butler, National Review, "Led Zeppelin Defeats Claims of Copyright Infringement," 14 Mar. 2020 Figure 4, for example, looks at first like a counterexample to the crystallographic restriction, with five-fold rotational symmetry around point A, and wallpaper pattern shifts in the directions of AB and AC. — Quanta Magazine, "How to Make Impossible Wallpaper," 5 Mar. 2013

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