artificially

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Recent Examples of artificially But a House Fiscal Agency report shows that total artificially reduced by the way billions in federal funding is accounted for, by moving Medicaid money to contingency funds where they are not included in the budget total. Paul Egan, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025 The mechanism, which allows teams to artificially lower a cap hit by spreading the money out longer than the contract length, will no longer be permitted as of Tuesday. Arpon Basu, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 The study’s authors also stated that the bodies were mummified artificially by smoking the remains over fire for an extended period of time. Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025 Stage one is often abetted by venture capital, as in the case of Uber, which in its early days kept its ride prices artificially low. Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 Security threats, including SMS phishing, artificially inflated traffic, and spam pose significant risks to both consumers and businesses and can result in financial losses and eroded trust. Ivan Ostojić, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 In July 2024, the Russian government ended its preferential mortgage program, which had kept rates artificially low at 8 percent over the previous four years. Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025 While the naturally occurring mirror molecules hitching a ride on nearby asteroids are not going to have any impact on our home planet, the experts feared that biologists may — in the lab — be able to artificially create entire mirror-image organisms, to potentially disastrous results. Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025 These are artificially generated but designed to closely match what a real camera might capture in a real-world setting. Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for artificially
unnaturally
Adverb
  • Earlier video models often cheated to satisfy prompts, with objects teleporting or morphing unnaturally.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Lamb suffered the injury on a carry out of the backfield, and his ankle could be seen on the broadcast being unnaturally bent back.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2025

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