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It is used to describe a situation or outcome that is contrary to what one would intuitively expect. Example: "Counterintuitively, increasing the price of the product led to higher sales." Alternatives include "paradoxically" or "ironically."
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Counterintuitively
adverb
In a manner contrary to intuition or common sense
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Counterintuitively, by following her advice, rather than worrying about commercial success, I found my idea.
Mike Selvey, a former England player turned pundit, argues that, counterintuitively, helmets may actually be making batsmen less safe.
Rather counterintuitively, government approval ratings, which had been sliding since the start of the year, actually edged up in August.Markets, for their part, saw the release of second-quarter GDP figures as raising the chances of a victory by the opposition and are hopeful that a new president would implement a more responsible economic policy.
(Counterintuitively, deep-green areas yield poor wine: since they are so fertile, the vine produces weak grapes in high volumes rather than smaller quantities of concentrated fruit).
Counterintuitively, Ms Sandberg argues that a woman's most important career decision is whom she marries.
The fact that it has not is, counterintuitively, a bad sign.
It looks, counterintuitively, as though evolution is somehow favouring the spread of a chronic disease.Which it probably is, but not because arthritis is somehow good for rhinos.
And perhaps the agony of capitalism will counterintuitively benefit parties of the right.Or, as in the 1930s, the results may be radical and dramatic, which in Britain might mean the revival and electoral resurgence of an old-fashioned interventionist Labour Party.
Ms Elberse uses case studies from the film, television, music and sporting worlds to argue that, counterintuitively, "the idea of smaller bets being 'safer' is a myth".
Perhaps counterintuitively, the long, drawn out primary may have helped Democrats by leaving activists without a target against whom to mobilise:"We spent 18 months and millions of dollars making 'Hillary The Movie,'" laments David Bossie, head of Citizens United and a longtime Clinton tormentor.
Counterintuitively, he bought a firm in the west, a builder of clean rooms and other industrial facilities, to give Jenoptik a western face and the cash flow to develop its photonics business.
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