artificially
advEtymology From artificial + -ly.
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In an artificial manner.
- The actor spoke his lines artificially, with too much intonation.
- These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune.1895, Frantz Peckel Möller, Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry, page 442:
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By or because of human effort.
- The chocolate was flavoured artificially.
- This lake had been artificially made by the damming up of the stream that had previously wasted itself unornamentally, […]1926, E. F. Benson, Peter:
2 more examples
- The coup was well-planned. Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule. The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people. Police-controlled thugs who had been used against the Tahrir Square demonstrations in 2011 came back into action.2013 August 23, Jonathan Steele, “The west has little influence in Egypt”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2020, page 18:
- Images taken from an electron microscope reveal the way the gold atoms have formed into a highly organised lattice. Other images show gold nanoseaweed that has been artificially coloured.2019 August 6, “Scientists create the world's thinnest gold”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2024, page 5:
- Antonyms
- naturally