man-made diamonds that were really just glass
the houses in the new development are built around a man-made lake
Recent Examples on the WebThe Thunderbolt siren first came on the market in the 1950s as a Cold War-era air raid siren and was later reissued as a multipurpose warning system for all kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made.—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 May 2024 Crews had been removing natural and man-made debris in forests across the country over the past few weeks to prevent such a disaster, Stampoulidis said.—Paul Tugwell, Fortune Europe, 9 Apr. 2024 More than 15 years earlier, Andrés had begun channeling his status as a celebrity chef into tireless work in the world’s most desperate places, hammered by disasters natural and man-made.—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024 The killings occurred as Gaza reels from a hunger crisis humanitarian officials say is man-made and due in large part to Israel’s obstruction of aid.—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 And given the distressing frequency of various natural and man-made disasters, approval of AT&T’s proposal should hinge on the availability of equally reliable ways to call for help.—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024 Gaza is suffering a spreading hunger crisis that aid officials describe as man-made, caused by limited entry points for supplies, an onerous Israeli inspection process and Israeli attacks on aid convoys and the local police that guard them.—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024 In their gaseous phase, many natural and man-made molecules, including ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and methanol, absorb photons when stimulated at terahertz frequencies, and those absorption bands can serve as chemical fingerprints.—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024 By adopting these simple measures, the United States can save lives during a natural or man-made disaster like an EMP attack.—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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