What does counternarrative mean?
Counternarrative means A narrative that goes against another narrative..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A narrative that goes against another narrative..
To our great dismay, what we find is that in important sectors of the American press a disturbing counternarrative is emerging: That perhaps this election wasn’t a fraud after all.
One aspect of the effort to cast doubt on ozone depletion was the construction of a counternarrative that depicted ozone depletion as a natural variation that was being cynically exploited by a corrupt, self-interested, and extremist scientific community to get more money for their research.
This past week[…] Republicans completed their journey through the looking-glass, spinning a new counternarrative of that deadly day. No longer content to absolve Mr. Trump, they concocted a version of events in which those accused of rioting were patriotic political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for the violence.
Use counternarrative when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Counternarrative means A narrative that goes against another narrative..
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To our great dismay, what we find is that in important sectors of the American press a disturbing counternarrative is emerging: That perhaps this election wasn’t a fraud after all.
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