counterculture
noun
the culture and lifestyle of those people, especially among the young, who reject or oppose the dominant values and behavior of society.
countercultures
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pluralof counterculture.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He said it was “the first installment in a history of L.A.’s countercultures and protesters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
“The physical remaking of San Francisco, its culture and countercultures, was inseparable from the flux of people and neighborhoods,” Isenberg writes.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
It’s easy to conclude that Beat culture, like other countercultures that followed, has been co-opted by a mercenary society — easy and a bit facile.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2016
Our capacity to create lifestyle subcultures and countercultures depends on our status and rebel instincts, and together these created the dynamic of oppositional cool consumption.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2015
Similarly, the computer and Internet galvanized certain strains of both the pagan and the grassroots 'do-it-yourself' countercultures as the 'cyberpunk' movement, which was dedicated to altering reality through technology, together.
From Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff
