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
Historians sometimes play the counterfactual game of wondering what would have happened if a major event had turned out differently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
That effacement tries to create a counterfactual absurdity.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2025
Overall, the counterfactual scenarios generate peak discharges at more than 70 per cent of the 516 river gauges across Germany considered in this study that exceed the record floods currently recorded there.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
