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Recent Examples of counterfactual
Now consider a counterfactual scenario, in which Russia attacked only the Donbas region of Ukraine in 2022.
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Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2025
The polio vaccines prevented 29 million cases of paralytic polio between 1960 and 2021, compared with a counterfactual world with no vaccines, according to researchers’ estimates.
—Soph Warnes, CNN, 2 Feb. 2025
The former calls for a counterfactual view of how testing works; the latter calls for political will and policy ideas not currently in evidence.
—Peter Greene, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
From those counterfactual questions, the adult Roth spun a tour de force of memory and history.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
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Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2025
The polio vaccines prevented 29 million cases of paralytic polio between 1960 and 2021, compared with a counterfactual world with no vaccines, according to researchers’ estimates.
—Soph Warnes, CNN, 2 Feb. 2025
The former calls for a counterfactual view of how testing works; the latter calls for political will and policy ideas not currently in evidence.
—Peter Greene, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
From those counterfactual questions, the adult Roth spun a tour de force of memory and history.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterfactual
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The examples and notes in question were and are erroneous and inconsistent with our policies, and have been removed.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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About 60 of those were licensed using the erroneous measurement system, mostly in New York City, plus around another 40 that have licenses but are yet to open their doors.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
14 Aug. 2025
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Any suggestion that our work is connected to funding the war is simply untrue.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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To make Burns more compliant, Nixon aides planted untrue stories about Burns’ wanting a big salary increase while other wages had been frozen.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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The deficient vice of integrity is being fake, untruthful, inconsistent, unprincipled, and manipulative.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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The document discovery in those cases revealed that France had been untruthful during the NFLPA arbitration process.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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The tariffs on Canada are illusory because most of the trade is still protected.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
11 July 2025
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Some may prove useful in the long run and others illusory, but for now they are statistically swamped by the sheer amount of renewable power coming online.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
9 July 2025
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The trailer is the latest installment in the film’s unique marketing campaign, which has featured seemingly authentic advertisements for the fictitious Rental Family Agency’s unique services.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
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For security purposes, ministry members use pseudonyms, usually their first name and a fictitious last name, and all mail comes to the church address at 400 East Westminster in Lake Forest.—
Gina Grillo,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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That volume of capital increases their margin for error in the inexact science that is the NBA draft.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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The draft remains an inexact science, but the Cubs have a formula that has endured through regime changes and philosophical shifts.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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The president has also made inaccurate statements about certain BLS records.—
Isabella Murray,
ABC News,
5 Aug. 2025
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The White House defended the president’s decision, suggesting the employment numbers and the downward revisions of the past two months were inaccurate.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Aug. 2025
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The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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There might be a bigger market for these products, and more consumers might be immune to the fallacious argument that they’re overly processed, if more people were persuaded of the ills of factory farming.—
Kenny Torrella,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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“Counterfactual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterfactual. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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