countercultural
Americanadjective
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Environmental damage, plastic waste and the conformity of suburbia prompted designers and countercultural communities to imagine other ways of living — up to a point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
And, in keeping with Waters’s oeuvre, there are plenty of countercultural, even debaucherous, twists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Lorne Michaels has spent his career creating comedy that felt anti-establishment and countercultural.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Yes, there’s a turntable, along with an iPhone and posters of other countercultural figures from earlier generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
But their organisation model was much more complex and potentially far-reaching than those of their countercultural predecessors.
From Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff
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