countercultural
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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It remained, however, a countercultural pursuit to be played in liminal, seedy spaces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
You can entertain crypto as part of the world financial system, or you can maintain the pretense that crypto is the countercultural beacon of freedom that its earliest boosters claimed it would be.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025
From the jump, "SNL" branded itself as something countercultural.
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025
With a distinctive trippy blend of rock, folk, and jazz, The Grateful Dead are arguably one of the most influential bands in American history, and wrote the soundtrack for the countercultural generation of the sixties.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
But their organisation model was much more complex and potentially far-reaching than those of their countercultural predecessors.
From Open Source Democracy by Rushkoff, Douglas
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