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Moreover, as the ground thawed, his route turned into a gauntlet of boggy muskeg and impenetrable alder, and McCandless belatedly came to appreciate one of the fundamental (if counterintuitive) axioms of the North: winter, not summer, is the preferred season for traveling overland through the bush.† (source)
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Cathedral terminology was like stage directions-totally counterintuitive.† (source)
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Yeah, it's counterintuitive.† (source)
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I squat beside the truck's fuel tank and grab hold of the metal cap, praying one of those counterintuitive prayers that this bad boy is topped off—or better, half-full, since fumes will give us the biggest bang for the buck.† (source)
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It seems counterintuitive but we do things at a slower pace and as a result we get through a lot more.† (source)
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This may seem counterintuitive.† (source)
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His advice was sometimes counterintuitive: "When you are driving, you look to see where you are going, but when you are making an incision, you look to see where you have been."† (source)
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This new technology—known as Total Liquid Ventilation (TLV)—was so counterintuitive that few believed it existed.† (source)
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Fleeing through the main entrance was a brilliantly counterintuitive move, I thought.† (source)
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This, I realize, seems wildly counterintuitive.† (source)
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Gifts that would turn their bodies into finely tuned weapons, for the designers of the invasion had understood a simple, though counterintuitive, truth: Where the body went, the mind followed.† (source)
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But a small change is often all that it takes, There is something profoundly counterintuitive in the definition of stickiness that emerges from all these examples.† (source)
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In chapter 2, when I was discussing what made someone like Mark Alpert so important in word-of-mouth epidemics, I talked about two seemingly counterintuitive aspects of persuasion.† (source)
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To make sense of social epidemics, we must first understand that human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules.† (source)
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It is as counterintuitive as the world being round.†
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