Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an artificial manner; by art or human skill and contrivance.
- With good contrivance; with skill or ingenuity.
- Artfully; craftily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
- adverb obsolete Ingeniously; skillfully.
- adverb obsolete Craftily; artfully.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
artificial manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb not according to nature; not by natural means
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is what I refer to as artificially constraining legislation.
Art Brodsky: Texas and Tennessee Have Fun With Broadband Mapping Money 2009
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Hachette has become the latest publisher to announce that it was done with what it calls the artificially depressed e-book prices imposed by Amazon.
Ars Technica 2010
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Hachette has become the latest publisher to announce that it was done with what it calls the artificially depressed e-book prices imposed by Amazon.
Ars Technica 2010
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Hachette has become the latest publisher to announce that it was done with what it calls the artificially depressed e-book prices imposed by Amazon.
Ars Technica 2010
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If the foreclosure process is halted and lending practices are thoroughly investigated, it might eventually force bankers to own up to their own lawlessness -- and write down billions of dollars in artificially inflated assets.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The First Domino: Foreclosure Fraud and the 'Invisible Bailout' RJ 2010
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Fossil fuels remain artificially cheap because we don't have to make them; we simply withdraw them from the global account, clean and purify them a bit, and burn them up.
Bill Shireman: Science, Religion, and Sustainability: Lessons from My Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010
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Fossil fuels remain artificially cheap because we don't have to make them; we simply withdraw them from the global account, clean and purify them a bit, and burn them up.
Bill Shireman: What I Learned from My Dead Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010
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Fossil fuels remain artificially cheap because we don't have to make them; we simply withdraw them from the global account, clean and purify them a bit, and burn them up.
Bill Shireman: What I Learned from My Dead Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010
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They live in artificially lit shanty-arcologies and depend on shipment piracy for survival.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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The metal helmet is her life support and what keeps her dead brain artificially alive by pumping oxygen into it and zapping it with small amounts of electricity to maintain its basic functions.
Boing Boing 2008
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