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as in artificial
produced by humans rather than natural processes
that organic farm doesn't use any pesticides or synthetic fertilizers
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as in faux
being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials
synthetic fur collars boots of waterproof synthetic leather
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Recent Examples of synthetic
The Week Us, TheWeek, 18 May 2026
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data indicated that 109,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, with 70% of deaths tied to a synthetic opioid such as fentanyl.
—Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 17 May 2026
Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
One case-in-point is a 2025 research survey of BPC-157, an experimental synthetic peptide derived from stomach acid.
—Joe Wilkins Published Mar 18, Futurism, 18 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
On the street level, there are calls for wider distribution of naloxone, and for educating young people about the dangers that may lurk inside a pain pill or a bag of synthetic cannabinoids.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 18 May 2026
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data indicated that 109,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, with 70% of deaths tied to a synthetic opioid such as fentanyl.
—Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 17 May 2026
Noun
Cotton also gets softer with every wash instead of pilling or degrading — a durability advantage synthetic blends can’t match.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
One case-in-point is a 2025 research survey of BPC-157, an experimental synthetic peptide derived from stomach acid.
—Joe Wilkins Published Mar 18, Futurism, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for synthetic
Adjective
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Add a touch of color with these artificial flowers or revamp your living room with a fresh area rug.—
Brittany VanDerBill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 May 2026
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To make the system more lifelike, the team linked the organoid to an artificial cardiac plexus, a network of nerves located near the base of the heart that helps regulate heartbeat activity.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
23 May 2026
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Garcia, who wrote and directed the movie, has come up with some crisply clever faux-noir dialogue, and part of the joke is that Joe speaks in his hardboiled pensées while everyone else talks like a normal person.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 May 2026
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Unlike many faux-jean pants that always look a little off, these still have that classic denim look.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
20 May 2026
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Sipper talked about how her company trains with scalar field outputs of simulation data, and the meshes of objects.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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Actor Eric Stonestreet showed up to cheer on Mahomes as the three men duked it out in the racing simulation game.—
Lisa Gutierrez
May 21,
Kansas City Star,
21 May 2026
Adjective
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While in space, Ship is expected to deploy 22 dummy Starlink satellites — a large increase from the eight or 10 simulated payloads on previous flights.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
18 May 2026
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Who or what is this simulated girlfriend experience that has seemingly overridden Nikki, and where is the genuine article?—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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Off Campus uses the messy lives of these athletes to explore romance tropes like fake-dating plots, enemies-to-lovers twists, secret relationships, and more.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2026
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The Sentinel story published earlier this month featured both Gavi’s and Bastien’s cases as examples of Florida’s inconsistent approach to dealing with nurses who received degrees from roughly two dozen schools that sold fake nursing degrees to more than 7,000 people over the past several years.—
Annie Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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The last two of those dummy craft will collect imagery of Ship's heat shield, to inform the development of future missions.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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In a complaint filed Thursday, Texas AG attorneys said Meta’s claims are false and that the company can and does read the unencrypted contents of WhatsApp messages.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2026
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The report sparked a blistering response from Parks Director Christopher Cotten, who argued the auditors shared false or inaccurate information and failed to understand how parks and recreation programming works.—
Dylan Lysen,
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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Since then, whenever new tools to crank out communications have become available, somebody has flooded the zone with the fastest, most imitative material that could garner attention.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
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It may be borrowed or coined, named after a person, inspired by a place or imitative of a sound.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Synthetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synthetic. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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