: manufactured, created, or constructed by human beings
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man-made diamonds that were really just glass
the houses in the new development are built around a man-made lake
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The Snow Zone at Kentucky Kingdom includes Blizzard Bluff a 175-foot-long, eight-lane snow tubing hill featuring real (man-made) snow.
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Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2024
Landsat, the longest-running satellite program dedicated to Earth observation, helps monitor environmental changes, urban growth, drought, wildfires, biomass changes and a host of other natural and man-made trends on a global scale.
—Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
The large-scale entry of laboratory grown diamonds over the past three years has caused a collapse in prices for all gems, natural or man-made, especially at the cheaper end of the market.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
By the 1950s, a motel and man-made lake had been added.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2024
Landsat, the longest-running satellite program dedicated to Earth observation, helps monitor environmental changes, urban growth, drought, wildfires, biomass changes and a host of other natural and man-made trends on a global scale.
—Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
The large-scale entry of laboratory grown diamonds over the past three years has caused a collapse in prices for all gems, natural or man-made, especially at the cheaper end of the market.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
By the 1950s, a motel and man-made lake had been added.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Man-made.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man-made. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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