Example Sentences

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Its algorithm — still largely interest-driven rather than identity-driven — has enabled ordinary people to go viral with critical stories and counternarratives.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025

Generally, the people I interviewed who were able to leave gaslighting relationships quickly had people they could rely on to validate their realities and give them positive counternarratives about their self-worth.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022

With all of the narratives and counternarratives, the flood of images, it’s important to find what the artist Kenturah Davis calls a “space of opening.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2022

The mere existence of “Get Back” is a sign that, more than half a century after the Beatles disbanded, their history is still unsettled, and remains endlessly ripe for deep-dive research and partisan counternarratives.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

The result is a novel composed of narratives and counternarratives, texts and subtexts.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017