a leaderless disinformation campaign, with claims leaping from conspiracy theorists to state propagandists to alternative-media outlets and back—an ecosystem I call the Counterfactual Community.
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Counterfactual
//ˌkaʊntɚˈfæktʃuəl//
Synonyms for "counterfactual" (13 found)
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Adjective(2 words)
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3 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
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11 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 12 languages.
Finnish
3 entries- kontrafaktuaalinen adj (contrary to the facts)
- paikkansapitämätön adj (contrary to the facts)
- tosiasioiden vastainen adj (contrary to the facts)
French
1 entries- contrefactuel adj (contrary to the facts)
Georgian
1 entries- ფაქტების საწინააღმდეგო adj (contrary to the facts)
German
1 entries- kontrafaktisch adj (contrary to the facts)
Hungarian
4 entries- a tényeknek ellentmondó adj (contrary to the facts)
- hamis adj (contrary to the facts)
- kontrafaktuális adj (contrary to the facts)
- valótlan adj (contrary to the facts)
Italian
1 entries- controfattuale adj (contrary to the facts)
Occitan
1 entries- contrafactual adj (contrary to the facts)
Polish
1 entries- kontrfaktyczny adj (contrary to the facts)
Portuguese
1 entries- contrafatual adj (contrary to the facts)
Russian
1 entries- контрафактивный adj (contrary to the facts)
Spanish
1 entries- contrafactual adj (contrary to the facts)
Swedish
1 entries- kontrafaktisk adj (contrary to the facts)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
What would have happened if those great Chinese voyages [by Zheng He] had continued? It's one of those questions in counter-factual history about which it is impossible to be sure.
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The counterfactual 1982 of the novel plays variations on our historical record and contains clear allusions to the present.
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Just as counterfactuals employ too much imagination to qualify as historical works, alternate history often labors under too great a load of artificial "facts" to take flight as fiction.
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