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synthetic

When something is synthetic, it is artificial, fake, man-made or not genuine.

synthetic

(= man-made) not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially man-made fibers synthetic leather not genuine or natural counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic — George Will systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology — P.S.Welch of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts 'all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition a compound made artificially by chemical reactions (= celluloid) artificial as if portrayed in a film a novel with flat celluloid characters

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The chairs are made of a synthetic material.
German is a synthetic language.
In the postbiological era, synthetic bodies became the new home of human minds.
This is a synthetic diamond.
They want to create a synthetic life form.
This is a synthetic language.

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Working hours, wage cuts. Synthetic food, the quality of the sawdust in the bread.
Stalled again, like a jeep on synthetic gas.
You mean a synthetic?
At most, a synthetic beauty.
Leipzig is the enemy's largest synthetic-oil refinery.
They have the ability to produce food by means of synthetic sunlight.
For instance, this meat loaf is synthetic.
Purpose--to confirm discover by Dr. Thomas Leighton of an extraordinar new synthetic food which would totally end the threat off a mine on Signia Minor, a nearby Earth colony.
If the crew has to eat synthetic meat loaf, I want it to look like turkey.
Synthetic organs are in place.
T-Mat, the ultimate in travel, with as much sense of adventure as a synthetic carbohydrates factory!
Only after an indefinite period of symbiotic telepathic cohesion can the dominant personality abdicate its agglutinative role and encourage the emergence of a truly synthetic conglomerate personality.
As an aphrodisiast, Dr Stringfellow proposes the use of synthetic aphrodisiac drugs to assist those who wish to attain a fully three-dimensional sexuality.
It's all a synthetic plastic compound called polycron.
It looks like a bacterial thread, but it's actually synthetic.
Furthermore, I've found it's a synthetic virus created from scratch.
Working hours, wage cuts, the synthetic food, the quality of the sawdust in the bread.
Yes, made of synthetic rubber.
What they call synthetic pain.
Have you got any wool mixed with nylon or synthetic fibre?
Synthetic fibre?
We've nothing to do with synthetic fibre here, sir.
Synthetic fibre.
Synthetic fibres.
All this stupid talk about the synthetic fibres.
Purpose: To confirm discovery by Dr. Thomas Leighton of an extraordinary new synthetic food which would totally end the threat of famine on Cygnia Minor, a nearby Earth colony.
I was teaching that synthetic twin of mine how to shoot and fence.
Synthetic progress, and artificial faith.
Synthetic gold?
Synthetic footgear.
Part of his uniform is made of animal skins and yet the combat jacket is a modern synthetic fibre.
You'll see, it'll be very comfortable. It's a synthetic with holes for breathing. It'll be just as comfy as a chair.
At the risk of being simplistic, what you're looking at is a quasi-neural matrix of synthetic RNA molecules.
It could be a synthetic virus out of a laboratory!
Synthetic tissue regeneration took place whilst bodily organs were held in long-term suspension.
You are wearing synthetic garments. manufactured by technology as yet unknown on this planet.

News and current affairs

Moreover, the technology necessary to convert it into energy - including high-yield burning, gas conversion, and liquefaction into synthetic fuel - has long been mastered.
Millions of years and 200 tons of plant matter are necessary to produce one liter of oil, whereas just 15 kilograms of plant matter are required to make one liter of synthetic fuel.
Moreover, antioxidant supplements in pills are synthetic and biochemically unbalanced compared to their naturally occurring counterparts.
The US Anti-Doping Agency, for example, played a central role in uncovering a new synthetic steroid known as THG linked to a California firm catering to Olympic and professional athletes.
Bonds is widely believed to have been helped by drugs and synthetic hormones.
For some years now, synthetic biology has been looming as the next big issue in bioethics.
Others have pointed out that, although the team produced a synthetic genome, they put it into a cell from another bacterium, replacing that cell's DNA.
Obviously, the release of any synthetic organism must be carefully regulated, just like the release of any genetically modified organism.
In such circumstances, the admittedly very real risks of synthetic biology seem decisively outweighed by the hope that it may enable us to avert a looming environmental catastrophe.
India was historically strong at field hockey, winning almost all of the gold medals between 1928 and 1968, but, since the Games switched from grass to expensive synthetic turf, the Indians have won just one field hockey medal.
Another is the conversion of renewable energy into hydrogen (by splitting water molecules) or a synthetic liquid fuel made with carbon dioxide from the air.
A natural substance, however, has no reason to be less toxic than a synthetic one.
In fact, synthetic compounds may be safer than natural ones.
Part of the attraction of these synthetic drugs is that they are readily available, affordable, and convenient to use (no need to shoot up, snort, or smoke).
Given fear of contamination - and military interest in a more durable supply - research into synthetic alternatives has long been a medical priority.
This has created an even greater diversity of drugs (natural and synthetic) at lower prices and higher purity than fifteen years ago, during the heyday of the Medellin drug barons.
The damaged part of the aorta was then replaced with a synthetic graft.
It prohibits the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, with some pragmatic exceptions.
When suitable alternatives are lacking, some (strictly enumerated) synthetic chemicals are allowed.
It involved a complex synthetic security that was derived from existing mortgage-backed securities by cloning them into imaginary units that mimicked the originals.
This is a clear demonstration of how derivatives and synthetic securities were used to create imaginary value out of thin air.
The use of derivatives and other synthetic instruments must be regulated, even if all the parties are sophisticated investors.

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