Sentences with counterfactual
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C c - If she had hurried she would have caught the bus
- What would have happened if those great Chinese voyages [by Zheng He] had continued? It's one of those questions in counter-factual history about which it is impossible to be sure.
- Traders and athletes alike are both subject to the mood-altering power of counterfactual thinking.
- In Altered Pasts, Evans sets out to show that Ferguson uses the counterfactual to support his own world view rather than to illuminate the past.
- McGough mugged in counterfactual contretemps.