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Recent Examples of artificially
The big takeaway is that the cremation rate may be artificially inflated because of limitations on awareness, availability and legal access to greener alternatives.
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Tanya D. Marsh, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
The filing is part of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s 2022 antitrust lawsuit alleging Amazon artificially inflated product prices to protect its profit margins.
—Spencer Soper, Bloomberg, 20 Apr. 2026
Raphael could certainly extract feeling from the architecture of a body and the distribution of its weight, but the majority of his faces, even the most artificially expressive ones, are unburdened by anything like a psychology.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
The housing laws that the General Assembly passed over the last couple of years created pressure and artificially accelerated a process that takes time and public input, Bommer said.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Krüger spent almost two years training Filou to select the bigger of two vortex rings generated artificially underwater.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
Look beyond where others are flocking to Look beyond the same dozen or so companies everyone talks about on campus — and that become artificially competitive as a result.
—Gorick Ng, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
In other words, the obvious consequences of artificially boosting worker pay beyond market rates came to pass.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
This includes the sobering reality that artificially fabricated strands can be blended into the bunch, that not all human hair is created equal, and most hair does not all originate from the same donor or arrive in the same caliber of quality.
—Noel Cymone Walker, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2026
Tanya D. Marsh, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
The filing is part of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s 2022 antitrust lawsuit alleging Amazon artificially inflated product prices to protect its profit margins.
—Spencer Soper, Bloomberg, 20 Apr. 2026
Raphael could certainly extract feeling from the architecture of a body and the distribution of its weight, but the majority of his faces, even the most artificially expressive ones, are unburdened by anything like a psychology.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
The housing laws that the General Assembly passed over the last couple of years created pressure and artificially accelerated a process that takes time and public input, Bommer said.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Krüger spent almost two years training Filou to select the bigger of two vortex rings generated artificially underwater.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
Look beyond where others are flocking to Look beyond the same dozen or so companies everyone talks about on campus — and that become artificially competitive as a result.
—Gorick Ng, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
In other words, the obvious consequences of artificially boosting worker pay beyond market rates came to pass.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
This includes the sobering reality that artificially fabricated strands can be blended into the bunch, that not all human hair is created equal, and most hair does not all originate from the same donor or arrive in the same caliber of quality.
—Noel Cymone Walker, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for artificially
unnaturally
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New segments start looking leggy, which means unnaturally long and thin.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Apr. 2026
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His baritone vocals are well presented, falling neatly into the frequency range the speaker likes to emphasize, though they are unnaturally boosted in some of his lowest notes.—
Mark Knapp,
PC Magazine,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Artificially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artificially. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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