Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a synthetic manner; by synthesis; by composition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a synthetic manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb using
synthetic methods
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb by synthesis; in a synthetic manner
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Examples
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All the government needs to do is butt out and we'd actually have access to healthy food and natural vitamins, not the big name synthetically produced from oil vitamins
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Theoretically this means that the events in the brain can be produced "synthetically" from the outside when additional energy is pumped into the brain in specific frequencies corresponding to specific brain activities.
Means of Information War Threaten Democracy and Mankind 2009
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Unlike today, medications were not synthetically made but mixed together from natural constituents.
Jane Chafin: Is the Art World's One Percent Unraveling? A Fantastic Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Jane Chafin 2011
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A new proposed amendment to the organic regulations by Organic Vintners, a wine importer and retailer, seeks to weaken the USDA organic wine standards and allow the use of synthetically produced sulfites in organic wine.
Ronnie Cummins: Proposed Sulfite Amendment Weakens Organic Standards Ronnie Cummins 2010
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The text of the email began, Attached please find a worksheet with 86 sub-prime mortgage positions that we would recommend taking exposure to synthetically.
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Unlike today, medications were not synthetically made but mixed together from natural constituents.
Jane Chafin: Is the Art World's One Percent Unraveling? A Fantastic Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Jane Chafin 2011
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While hard and soft power analyze and target the almost endless individual components of the global power game, subtle power apprehends synthetically their interactions.
David Gosset: Chinese Prudence vs. US Recklessness David Gosset 2011
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A new proposed amendment to the organic regulations by Organic Vintners, a wine importer and retailer, seeks to weaken the USDA organic wine standards and allow the use of synthetically produced sulfites in organic wine.
Ronnie Cummins: Proposed Sulfite Amendment Weakens Organic Standards Ronnie Cummins 2010
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It is often mistaken as a synthetically manufactured stone because it is so strange looking.
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A new proposed amendment to the organic regulations by Organic Vintners, a wine importer and retailer, seeks to weaken the USDA organic wine standards and allow the use of synthetically produced sulfites in organic wine.
Ronnie Cummins: Proposed Sulfite Amendment Weakens Organic Standards Ronnie Cummins 2010
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