Sentence examples for a counterfactual from inspiring English sources

Everyone loves a counterfactual, right?

A counterfactual that should maybe haunt us all.

It's a serious argument, but one that begs a counterfactual.

The Isis attack on Palmyra was not a counterfactual fantasy.

The novel is also a counterfactual masterwork of personal history.

That may be so, but it's a counterfactual assertion.

Indeed, those arguments rest on proving or disproving a counterfactual.

The ruse is so obvious, a counterfactual posing as a home truth.

In a word, Denmark; but also America with a counterfactual history of the last forty years.

"It is a counterfactual question, so we shall never know," she said in an e-mail.

A counterfactual account of history appeals especially to people who are disappointed in the real thing.