Example sentences for: counterintuitive

How can you use “counterintuitive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The counterintuitive causes: Wall Street darling Alan Greenspan was nominated for a fourth term as Federal Reserve chairman, and Y2K economic disruptions never surfaced--both of which increase the likelihood that the Fed will raise interest rates.

  • But sector investing also tends to reward a successful corporation's competitors for that corporation's success, and in that sense seems not merely counterintuitive but downright perverse.

  • 002018) by Meir Stampfer from Harvard School of Public Health, and there is no doubt that these results seem counterintuitive.

  • ), its sometimes counterintuitive rhythms and emphases ("The captain has turned off the seat-belt sign.

  • The WP and LAT front a fresh study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appearing in today's JAMA , with a counterintuitive result: a significant decline in high-school violence in the 1990s.


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