counterintuitive

How To Use counterintuitive In A Sentence

• This does a disservice to the immutable laws of the universe (many of them strange and counterintuitive). Times, Sunday Times
• And just briefly skimming what I can find on counterintuition on the net, it seems that treatment of counterintuitive statements in terms of, effectively, pseudo-propositions, is an unusual characterization. Archive 2005-01-01
• To some teachers this lesson may be counterintuitive. Times, Sunday Times
• If anything, from an institutional point of view, Silicon Valley is — counterintuitively — a textbook example of 20th century capitalism.
• More than a decade of performance and change has demonstrated a remarkably consistent, if counterintuitive, phenomenon.
• Although it is counterintuitive for a graben to overlie a ridge, it has long been recognized that graben can result from local extension and thinning in the anticlinal domains that overlie linear ridges.
• In Syracuse, as in countless other communities, 9/11 set off a phenomenon that may seem counterintuitive in an era of increasingly vocal Islamophobia.
• The idea that cable broadcasters might produce unique programming seemed rather counterintuitive.
• But the only way they can do their lasting work in us may sound counterintuitive at first. Christianity Today
• Although it may seem counterintuitive, taking out a card shows that you can not only obtain credit but also manage it and make repayments as required. Times, Sunday Times