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1By means of human intervention rather than naturally.
‘she never wanted to be kept artificially alive with life support’
‘Sometimes DNA is artificially synthesized for the production of genetically modified food.’
‘I suspect this is due to digital noise reduction, which is used to artificially reduce film grain.’
‘One injection every 14 days kept the cows' hormones artificially inflated.’
‘Ingredients were developed to increase the volume of turkey semen to artificially inseminate more birds.’
‘It is now illegal to artificially implant cloned embryos in a woman.’
‘To be productive, those soils were artificially drained many years ago.’
‘The decision may be whether to let the grain dry in the field or to harvest higher-moisture corn and artificially dry the grain.’
‘Commercial tomatoes are tasteless because they are bred for shipping, picked green, and ripened artificially.’
‘The whole building was air conditioned and artificially lit.’
‘As an artificially created sound of the wind increases, the speed, shape, and color of projected clouds change.’
1.1In a contrived or false way.
‘the presenter tried to artificially create an argument between the two’
as submodifier‘artificially low prices’
‘These are theories that focus on artificially isolated aspects of literature in order to use them for an understanding of nonliterary facts.’
‘Competing on price means artificially lowering prices to attract more customers.’
‘Some works—such as Aesop's fables—tend to anthropomorphize animals in order to artificially close the human-animal gap.’
‘The movie frames several sections as action sequences, complete with artificially generated tension.’
‘It may be so, if the industry takes advantage of the data being offered and if attempts to artificially stunt supply are halted.’
‘It was a kind of freak show, with the actor's head on a body larger than his real one, and looking as if he were walking somehow artificially with no clear point.’
‘It merely refuses to help the owner get rich from artificially enforced scarcity.’
‘Artificially low rents discourage construction and maintenance, resulting in fewer available apartments.’
‘It manages to draw our attention to the flaws in these characters without artificially drumming up crises.’
‘She is beautiful and her acting is fine, but her singing voice is dubbed and she looks artificially Puerto Rican.’
2In an insincere or affected way.
‘I'm next to him, smiling artificially through my misery’
‘We'd rather not listen to Randall act artificially British.’
‘The nurse, wearing an artificially concerned expression, came over and helped him to drink it.’
‘They always seemed to look at the grays of life through an artificially generous, rose-tinted lens.’
‘He was artificially appalled at the thought of somebody actually leaking classified information.’
‘We don’t need another artificially grinning group of businessmen clutching their coffee mugs and looking like they’re high on something that isn’t life.’
‘Thus weeping artificially, he made a show of real lamentation.’
‘We try to make up for our rebellious feelings by behaving in artificially loving ways toward others.’
‘Then he became sad, not publicly or artificially sad, but deeply, privately sad.’
‘Perhaps the dictator was good at his job as an artificially friendly face of the movement.’
‘You've complained in other interviews about classic cartoon characters becoming artificially nice throughout the '70s.’