I hear the national dishes are, counterintuitively, fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - “Goode makes complete ass of self.”] Reference

Now, counterintuitively, it may be crimping an economic revival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easy Fed Loans Are Cheapening the Recovery] Reference

Afghanistan will, counterintuitively, lead to a successful manhunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the Indian Embassy Bombing] Reference

I'm guessing, counterintuitively, that group includes Michael Wolff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex and the single-minded journalists] Reference

This actually, believe it or not, counterintuitively, is not good news.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2008] Reference

The sale of imported Hummer H3 SUVs have, counterintuitively, exploded in Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  ["If 'brain sex' sounds like gender stereotyping, Dr. Moir says there is a twist: Brain sex doesn't always match biological sex."] Reference

The real problem with income inequality is counterintuitively, it causes government growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Now, we're seeing a bit of relief in interest rates this afternoon, sort of counterintuitively.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Fed Raises Interest Rates a Quarter Point - March 21, 2000] Reference

When you stop expecting people to change, it counterintuitively makes them easier to deal with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noah St. John: Five Steps to Avoid a Holiday Meltdown] Reference

Somewhat counterintuitively, the poll's internals show Coleman ahead 58%-31% among voters age 18-34.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not So Fast: Another Poll Shows Franken Trailing] Reference

Krugman argues, somewhat counterintuitively, that the administration is inhibited by free-market ideology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whence the Dither?] Reference

That's why when his characters are acting counterintuitively to everything that's come before, I get pissy.    From Wordnik.com.  [And so it begins...A Torchwood CoE Press Review] Reference

Besides, the piece has counterintuitively served, for some, as a rallying cry for those in the Centrello camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Did Stuart Do It? And Other Random Questions] Reference

And, somewhat counterintuitively, that hiring him for the job might be as good for Eggers as for the magazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who’s on deck for the Paris Review?] Reference

I actually think that, perhaps counterintuitively, the more Wright can be out talking to the press, the better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wright Gives First Interview to Bill Moyers] Reference

This created the misleading impression that they were counterintuitively saying that the surge just might work.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Three Cable Networks Describe O'Hanlon Or Pollack As War "Critics"] Reference

Perhaps counterintuitively, support for the war has actually risen since the last ICM poll on the issue in 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public opinion of the Afghanistan conflict] Reference

Moreover, counterintuitively at least for me the frequency of glacier quakes was higher in the higher latitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Heed the Goracle" « Climate Audit] Reference

I could appreciate how stylish it was, how biting the wit was, how counterintuitively lovable the characters were.    From Wordnik.com.  [SONS OF ANARCHY: Beware Lady MacGertrude « TV BACON] Reference

Rather counterintuitively, we've learned that spanning boundaries actually starts with creating or strengthening them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn Leadership Boundaries Into Frontiers] Reference

Perhaps counterintuitively, I believe it is W-2 work which is most affected by tax rates, since they are harder to dodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxes and Market Time, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

So NAPO brilliantly, and counterintuitively, paired the two, pitting one against the other to create the Dynamic Tension.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegant Solution] Reference

Meanwhile, my family has banned me talking about her at dinner because bile – counterintuitively – interferes with digestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waterboarding Bambi and Swiftboating Billary] Reference

I've learned that appearances can be deceiving and what appears like bad news may counterintuitively be good news for Ares/Orion.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Presidental Transition Action Item Log - NASA Watch] Reference

Criminal suspects must now unambiguously invoke their right to remain silent -- which, counterintuitively, requires them to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six and Tired] Reference

Criminal suspects must now unambiguously invoke their right to remain silent — which, counterintuitively, requires them to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday Night Links « Gerry Canavan] Reference

“Criminal suspects must now unambiguously invoke their right to remain silent, which, counterintuitively, requires them to speak.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supreme Court in Miranda case: Suspect must invoke right] Reference

An early objection to Lewis's account of counterfactuals (Fine 1975) was that, counterintuitively, it makes this counterfactual false.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

Once one cranks through the calculation, we find (somewhat counterintuitively) that a smaller slope yields a larger density perturbation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reconstructing Inflation] Reference

For media brands, counterintuitively, the best way to compete on the web is to collaborate -- the more you link out, the more you get back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting - Publishing 2.0] Reference

We are taking this course counterintuitively, but in the reasonable hope that in the more distant future we will be spending less while having more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: Hot Dogs and Beans: Obama and the American Dream] Reference

AMANPOUR: Well, let me ask you, because there clearly is some kind of conversation building in Washington, counterintuitively, about long-term development.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2010] Reference

But somewhat counterintuitively, Obama embraced Wright as an example of the America tinged by years of racial division, but which he argued could be healed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Embraces Wright, Tries to Move Past Him] Reference

You know, counterintuitively, I guess, some good came out of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Politics] Reference

And, counterintuitively, he climbed deeper and deeper into the crevasse and found, ultimately, a way out of the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Antipodean] Reference

This was evidenced by the differing reactions by the treasury market (which counterintuitively rallied) and the equity market.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Conversely, perhaps counterintuitively, history shows us that cutting the capital gains rate brings more money into the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference