Used in a Sentence

artificially

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for artificially.

Editorial note

They only reason they are worth something is because the government is artificially giving them worth by covering millions of possible implementation with a couple of sentences.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

By or because of human effort.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of artificially gathered in one view.

adverb

By or because of human effort.

adverb

In an artificial manner.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for artificially.

adverb

By or because of human effort.

adverb

In an artificial manner.

Example sentences

1

They only reason they are worth something is because the government is artificially giving them worth by covering millions of possible implementation with a couple of sentences.

2

They only get to be parasitic when the real estate market is dysfunctional and supply is constrained, possibly artificially.

3

If supply weren't artificially restricted, it would be profitable to expand the housing stock instead of completely displacing existing residents.

4

Some of them are natural islands that have been artificially expanded to support a military presence.

5

With $1 million medallions drivers have to pay a significant portion of their gross receipts for renting the artificially expensive taxi.

6

For example counting as users things like people logging onto third party sites using a G+ account or Youtube comment activity being artificially funneled into G+.

7

They want to artificially keep the prices high.

8

Looking naively at github files by type is unreliable, since so many people do things like keep their.vimrc and.vim files on github which artificially inflates the number of.vimL repositories.

9

Because all these people were buying the stock, its price became artificially inflated, so they proceeded to borrow against the stock at this point (in order to short-sell later).

10

Given the choice, I'll take a naturally sweetened beverage weekly over an artificially sweetened beverage daily, if only because of the awful taste of artificial sweeteners...

11

I think there should be three things that should never be allowed to be artificially restricted just for the greed of a few: food, water and housing.

12

The whole idea behind making the minimum wage a livable wage is to stop allowing corporations to keep wages artificially low by having workers augment their wages with government provided subsidies.

Quote examples

1

All along this may have been "artificially" increasing Twitter's user numbers relative to the kinds of users they want.

2

Since accepting alternate payment methods and the ability to switch processors is prohibitively difficult, competition is artificially constrained - leaving "fees as high as possible".

3

I suspect that "something" will either be artificially intelligent or pretty damn close to it.

4

We give them artificially sweetened pop so that it's "healthy".

Proper noun examples

1

Artificially limiting the number of jobs for this industry is not necessary to impose safety regulations.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use artificially in a sentence?

They only reason they are worth something is because the government is artificially giving them worth by covering millions of possible implementation with a couple of sentences.

What does artificially mean?

By or because of human effort.

What part of speech is artificially?

artificially is commonly used as adverb.