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counternarrative

American  
[kaun-ter-nar-uh-tiv] / ˈkaʊn tərˌnær ə tɪv /

noun

  • counternarratives
    plural
  1. a narrative based on a different ideology or interpretation of events.


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Has the AI counternarrative become too set for even Nvidia to turn it around?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

It answers Riefenstahl’s carefully chosen narrative, a fable of disillusioned purity, with an equally forensic counternarrative exposing her childlike narcissism about the impact of her talent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

And this is where I beg my legal friends, too: The counternarrative cannot simply be, “Well, the court will get him.”

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2024

There's no easy way to measure how much a counternarrative, delivered within the same social media networks, can help deter people from that path.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024

All along, though, the unflattering counternarrative about me seemed only to gain traction.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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 first half of the book has been leaked to family members, who come to Jake with their own counternarratives, accusations of omissions and misrepresentations.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021

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