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counter-intuitively

How to use counter-intuitively in a sentence. Live example sentences for counter-intuitively pulled from indexed public discussions.

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If you're going through emotional difficulties, counter-intuitively the last thing that will help is concrete advice.

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Quick take

If you're going through emotional difficulties, counter-intuitively the last thing that will help is concrete advice.

Example sentences

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If you're going through emotional difficulties, counter-intuitively the last thing that will help is concrete advice.

2

I'd better to care about markets -- counter-intuitively, humanity will be better then.

3

However, counter-intuitively, crime continued its decades-long decline.

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Being closer removed the regular routine of the train and, somewhat counter-intuitively, meant I worked longer hours because the last bullet train leaving Palo Alto didn't define the end of work anymore.

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More counter-intuitively, you can take a 10x team full of folks everybody agrees are brilliant, stick them in other teams, and have the other teams tank and folks in the other teams think those folks are losers.

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I've read articles about how they intentionally create shared roads because it makes both bikes and cars more careful, similar to the initiative of removing signs and lights in traffic (which, counter-intuitively, is often safer).

Proper noun examples

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Counter-intuitively, the opportunity costs involved seem to matter less and less the more your career and family prospects dwindle.

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Counter-intuitively, if you get punched in the face enough it eventually stops hurting at all.

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Counter-intuitively, suddenly everyone has become a devops luddite when it comes to a genuinely novel approach even though container abstractions have already proven themselves at scale.

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How do you use counter-intuitively in a sentence?

If you're going through emotional difficulties, counter-intuitively the last thing that will help is concrete advice.