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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

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

It’s more of a fever dream than an actual story, offering a queer counternarrative to the macho vision of the legendary warrior that is as hypnotic as it is gnarly.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

I do think that counternarrative needs to be there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

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

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Fallows, a noted American chronicler who grew up in Redlands, offers counternarratives to some of California’s bigger black eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024

"There have been all these ready-made counternarratives that are just sitting there, waiting for us, that encouraged us to think, 'No, this is really not much of a problem.'"

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2022

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

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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