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Recent Examples of unnaturally
Earlier video models often cheated to satisfy prompts, with objects teleporting or morphing unnaturally.
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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
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
The lights were on, but the house seemed unnaturally quiet.
—Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Zombies are what happen when a juvenile life stage is unnaturally protracted.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
California wildlife officials are urging hunters and trappers to remain vigilant after several wild pigs in Monterey County were discovered with unnaturally blue flesh, an indication that the animals may have ingested rodent poison commonly used in agricultural pest control.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
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
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
The lights were on, but the house seemed unnaturally quiet.
—Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Zombies are what happen when a juvenile life stage is unnaturally protracted.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
California wildlife officials are urging hunters and trappers to remain vigilant after several wild pigs in Monterey County were discovered with unnaturally blue flesh, an indication that the animals may have ingested rodent poison commonly used in agricultural pest control.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unnaturally
artificially
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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
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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
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“Unnaturally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unnaturally. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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