How To Use Counterintuitive In A Sentence
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This does a disservice to the immutable laws of the universe (many of them strange and counterintuitive).
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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
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To some teachers this lesson may be counterintuitive.
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If anything, from an institutional point of view, Silicon Valley is — counterintuitively — a textbook example of 20th century capitalism.
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More than a decade of performance and change has demonstrated a remarkably consistent, if counterintuitive, phenomenon.
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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.
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In Syracuse, as in countless other communities, 9/11 set off a phenomenon that may seem counterintuitive in an era of increasingly vocal Islamophobia.
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The idea that cable broadcasters might produce unique programming seemed rather counterintuitive.
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But the only way they can do their lasting work in us may sound counterintuitive at first.
Christianity Today
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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.
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I remember that Robert Newhouse threw a fullback option pass for a touchdown after licking the stickum off his hands; it was a sweep to the left, which still seems counterintuitive Newhouse being right-handed.
Chuck Klosterman on Sports
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And, of course, the story seems counterintuitive.
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The idea of a Slang dictionary is in many ways counterintuitive - or, one might say, a bit bonkers.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Counterintuitive as it may seem, snowbirds who treat their phone to a saltwater dunk may need to give it a quick rinse - sans battery and SIM card - in fresh water, as dried salt crystals can harm its innards.
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This isn't counterintuitive; this is more like nonintuitive," said Andrew Sterman during a recent lesson as he plucked his oud, trying to repeat by ear what Mr. Shaheen improvised on his instrument.
He Plays Arab Music, Makes and Fixes Ouds
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Authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner make the dismal science a lot less dismal by regaling readers with one counterintuitive economic analysis after another.
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Thus, the defenses against the two charges of apoliticism and unnecessary esotericism are often quite similar: continental feminist theory is committed to questioning such deeply held, deeply embedded concepts that it must of necessity adopt new kinds of language, new kinds of models, that are by definition counterintuitive.
Continental Feminism
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Perhaps counterintuitively, this can be at least as difficult for the dumper as it is for the dumpee.
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The idea that the determiner heads a noun phrase might seem counterintuitive to some readers.
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Nature, the master manager of complexity, offers priceless guidance in handling messy, counterintuitive webs.
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The counterintuitive option was at once less invasive and more efficient.
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It does indeed seem counterintuitive to continue the heartbreaking and futile process of militarizing the area, bullying and repatriating people.
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And through it all there is a series of flavours that seem to be counterintuitive.
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While it may sound counterintuitive, would it not make sense to lower the drinking age from 21 to 20 or even less, provided the less-than-21-year-old imbiber obtains a separate license for drinking.
Boing Boing
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The rule is counterintuitive - by comparison, most people feel that repeating gossip is less blameworthy than initiating it - but it is the law.
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If you've just been made redundant, rushing out to buy a bespoke suit may sound counterintuitive.
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There is perhaps something a trifle counterintuitive about all this.
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This does a disservice to the immutable laws of the universe (many of them strange and counterintuitive).
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In a world of relativism and scepticism, mercy seems a counterintuitive offer.
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While this may seem counterintuitive, turning up for a brunch when you're hungover puts you in a much more favourable frame of mind.
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And if you really are too stupid to understand it, how can you claim its findings are counterintuitive and anomalous?
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There is perhaps something a trifle counterintuitive about all this.
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This seems counterintuitive, because semiconductor makers should be at full tilt supplying the new generation of smartphones and tablets.
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This seems counterintuitive, to put it mildly.
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Nature, the master manager of complexity, offers priceless guidance in handling messy, counterintuitive webs.
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More than a decade of performance and change has demonstrated a remarkably consistent, if counterintuitive, phenomenon.
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Although the idea of prospecting in a volatile market may seem counterintuitive, clients are likely talking to their friends and families about the market volatility and about their advisers, says Maribeth Kuzmeski , president of Red Zone Marketing, a firm that develops marketing strategies for advisers.
News for Brokers, Wealth Managers And Their Clients
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The doctor's findings seem counterintuitive.
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If you've just been made redundant, rushing out to buy a bespoke suit may sound counterintuitive.
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In one of the most counterintuitive findings, the report says that fewer than 5 percent of the abusive priests exhibited behavior consistent with pedophilia, which it defines as a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by recurrent fantasies, urges and behaviors about prepubescent children.
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It may seem counterintuitive, but jaywalking is in fact the safest way to cross a street.
2009 February | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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I know that seems counterintuitive.
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It should not be a surprise that correlatives of these mind-boggling and counterintuitive models would appear somewhere within adjacent fields of cultural endeavor.
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Yet the insights of science are often counterintuitive, frequently lacking "truthiness."
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This does a disservice to the immutable laws of the universe (many of them strange and counterintuitive).
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But at the time, it must have seemed utterly counterintuitive.
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If this is correct, it implies a counterintuitive answer to economic populism.
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By this logic, identical twins are one person (soul-wise), genetic chimaeras are two people, and a set of siamese twins with one head and four legs is the same number of people as a set of siamese twins with two heads and two legs, which is pretty counterintuitive.
America's Deep, Dark Secret
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It may feel counterintuitive but, as with all acquired skills, it gets easier with practice.
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Authors in this genre now labor to find Gladwellian stories and characters to vivify the theories and studies that support their counterintuitive insights.
The Mind Readers
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In terms of his reporting, what Gourevitch has persevered to communicate, time and again, is that Rwanda's about-turn toward stability is politically counterintuitive.
Pia Sawhney: Blaming the Messenger: A Response to 'One Man's Rwanda' by Tristan McConnell
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Nature, the master manager of complexity, offers priceless guidance in handling messy, counterintuitive webs.
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While this may seem counterintuitive in the face of continued domestic violence worldwide, it is notable that in those societies or communities where intimate violence is stigmatized and reviled, the violence abates.
Marianne Mollmann: Making Noise About Violence and Women
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We use both field experiments and a dynamic game model to examine this counterintuitive observation.
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This seems counterintuitive, because semiconductor makers should be at full tilt supplying the new generation of smartphones and tablets.
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Those dualisms are still deeply ingrained in common sense, which is why pragmatism is so counterintuitive.
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Clearly this is counterintuitive to the more common assumption that large gangs of malevolent youths are vicious, destructive, soulless morons.
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He needs a counterintuitive policy proposal that would deal with the perception that he taking his party significantly to the left.
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He said: 'This may seem counterintuitive.
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Our approach is called "innovating the adjacent possible" and it's fast, messy, and for long-timers it will be counterintuitive.
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The meanings and inferences associated with the subject (omnipotence = physical power) of a counterintuitive expression contradict those associated with the predicate (insubstantial = lack of physical substance), as in the expressions “the bachelor is married” or “the deceased is alive.”
Archive 2005-01-01
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Although a predatory spider seems a counterintuitive source of painkiller, it is not as odd as it sounds.
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We were hoping for a counterintuitive answer to this one - you know, some rah-rah exhortation that you shouldn't let a slow economy dull your ambitions.
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Particularly when it seems counterintuitive.
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While such an argument seems counterintuitive at first, it does have some grounding in evolutionary biology.
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At first glance the move seems counterintuitive.
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There is perhaps something a trifle counterintuitive about all this.
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