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Recent Examples of unnaturally
Some of the earliest sculptures ever depict naked women with unnaturally exaggerated breasts, hips and pubic triangles, but scholars still disagree about how to interpret them.
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Anna Swartwood House, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026
The water is actually unnaturally clear because more than 400 trillion invasive Black Sea quagga mussels have taken over the bottom of the lake.
—Theodore J. Karamanski, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
While the rodents might be hibernating, there's no need to worry about woodchucks called upon for winter forecasting duties on Groundhog Day since they aren't necessarily being unnaturally stirred from their natural processes.
—Kate Perez, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
For instance, if a listener’s pupils dilate unnaturally during a conversation, signifying strain, the hearing aid could automatically engage a more aggressive noise suppression mode or narrow its directional microphone beam.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026
Slender Man himself emerged years earlier, in 2009, from a chilling online illustration depicting an unnaturally tall, faceless figure with long, tentacle-like limbs.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
The title refers to the series' universal optimism pandemic that has somehow swept the planet, creating one unnaturally cheerful global society out of the planet's billions of inhabitants.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Dawn of the Dead's flood of blood-and-guts is among the most memorable in film history, if only for the unnaturally vivid shades of red.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Earlier video models often cheated to satisfy prompts, with objects teleporting or morphing unnaturally.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
Anna Swartwood House, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026
The water is actually unnaturally clear because more than 400 trillion invasive Black Sea quagga mussels have taken over the bottom of the lake.
—Theodore J. Karamanski, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
While the rodents might be hibernating, there's no need to worry about woodchucks called upon for winter forecasting duties on Groundhog Day since they aren't necessarily being unnaturally stirred from their natural processes.
—Kate Perez, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
For instance, if a listener’s pupils dilate unnaturally during a conversation, signifying strain, the hearing aid could automatically engage a more aggressive noise suppression mode or narrow its directional microphone beam.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026
Slender Man himself emerged years earlier, in 2009, from a chilling online illustration depicting an unnaturally tall, faceless figure with long, tentacle-like limbs.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
The title refers to the series' universal optimism pandemic that has somehow swept the planet, creating one unnaturally cheerful global society out of the planet's billions of inhabitants.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Dawn of the Dead's flood of blood-and-guts is among the most memorable in film history, if only for the unnaturally vivid shades of red.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Earlier video models often cheated to satisfy prompts, with objects teleporting or morphing unnaturally.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unnaturally
artificially
Adverb
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Rent control artificially sets the price of rent below market value, disincentivizing additional investment in housing that’s desperately needed.—
Albert R. Wynn,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Mar. 2026
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The New York Times is cheering them on, opining in a recent editorial that artificially raising the prices of legal cannabis through higher taxes and fees will dissuade adults from consuming it.—
Paul Armentano,
Boston Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Unnaturally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unnaturally. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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