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Recent Examples of artificially
Manufacturers artificially create sugar alcohols and use them as bulking sugars to cut the intense sweetness of other no-calorie sweeteners such as aspartame.
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Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Cost-sharing is typically based on these artificially high list prices.
—Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
One such safeguard is the hourly wage for workers in the program, which is set by the federal government using a complex formula designed to ensure domestic workers are not harmed by artificially low wages.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 27 Aug. 2025
The district’s numbers conflate all of these salary enhancements in order to make their offer seem artificially generous.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
An employer cannot artificially raise a single union worker to a wage in excess of this.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The pandemic-era lows for home-loan troubles were, in many ways, artificially concocted by generous help for distressed borrowers.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
But in 2015, the state’s attorney general cracked down on a company, Chesapeake Energy, alleged to be taking artificially excessive deductions.
—Jacob Orledge, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2025
Musk then shared details of the bid with The Wall Street Journal to artificially raise the price of OpenAI and potentially spook investors, OpenAI alleged.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Cost-sharing is typically based on these artificially high list prices.
—Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
One such safeguard is the hourly wage for workers in the program, which is set by the federal government using a complex formula designed to ensure domestic workers are not harmed by artificially low wages.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 27 Aug. 2025
The district’s numbers conflate all of these salary enhancements in order to make their offer seem artificially generous.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
An employer cannot artificially raise a single union worker to a wage in excess of this.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The pandemic-era lows for home-loan troubles were, in many ways, artificially concocted by generous help for distressed borrowers.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
But in 2015, the state’s attorney general cracked down on a company, Chesapeake Energy, alleged to be taking artificially excessive deductions.
—Jacob Orledge, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2025
Musk then shared details of the bid with The Wall Street Journal to artificially raise the price of OpenAI and potentially spook investors, OpenAI alleged.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for artificially
unnaturally
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And now a lot of birds around the globe are starting their days earlier than ever, because of unnaturally bright skies caused by light pollution.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
21 Aug. 2025
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The lights were on, but the house seemed unnaturally quiet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Artificially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artificially. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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