How to Use counternarrative in a Sentence

counternarrative

noun
  • Share my counternarrative with your husband, and sort out your feelings.
    — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • In an era in which maturity is derided as senescence, good drinks offer a counternarrative.
    — Eric Felten, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • An official counternarrative has also emerged, encouraging young people to work hard for the sake of the country’s future.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
  • Moss’s account of her time with Depp also provides a counternarrative to his behavior as a romantic partner.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 25 May 2022
  • At the Monitor, Samantha Laine Perfas is a master of the counternarrative.
    — Greg Fitzgerald, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The familiarity of the dynamic isn’t a reference to that earlier film, but an effort at continuing its counternarrative.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In a recent filing, Huizar’s attorneys offered a counternarrative about his time in office and what downtown development meant for Boyle Heights.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • This is important because isolation prevents victims from hearing a counternarrative to what's happening in the relationship.
    — Paige L. Sweet, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Since his arrest, the Black Hammer Party has spun a counternarrative around the July 19 police raid and subsequent arrests.
    — Chris Joyner, ajc, 4 Aug. 2022
  • This past week, amid the emotional testimony of police officers at the first hearing of a House select committee, Republicans completed their journey through the looking-glass, spinning a new counternarrative of that deadly day.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Using footage shot by the media and government, the film explores the militarization of the police and the reaction of a nation to the uprisings of the late ’60s, creating a counternarrative to a critical moment in American history.
    — Natalie Lin, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2022

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