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  • Venter built the first synthetic one-celled organism.
  • Chemists learned to make synthetic penicillin.
  • It's not real flame, of course, just a little synthetic fire Portia and I came up with.  (source)
    synthetic = not genuine
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  • In the days before the OASIS, massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) were among the first shared synthetic environments.  (source)
    synthetic = artificial (man-made rather than natural)
  • The summer dresses are unpacked and hanging in the closet, two of them, pure cotton, which is better than synthetics like the cheaper ones, though even so, when it's muggy, in July and August, you sweat inside them.†  (source)
  • [8] This formidable work was almost purely synthetical: it began with a long series of definitions, wholly unintelligible to a child, and proceeded into a maddening maze of pedagogical distinctions, puzzling even to an adult†  (source)
  • He was a Universalist, a man in his forties, with a synthetically serene face, wavy blond, carefully groomed hair and pinkly mobile, rather girlish lips.†  (source)
  • The synthetic material used to stuff my sleeping bag would have been much better utilized in some other place, like freeway dividers, but for now I was stuck with the King Kong of all sleeping bags and nothing to put it in.  (source)
  • But it's still essential for the production of plastics, synthetics, food base, and keroids.†  (source)
  • We'd been talking about her project she needed funding for, some amazing research into synthetic reality.  (source)
  • Mass-produced plastics and synthetics aren't in themselves bad.†  (source)
  • Her pant legs had been rolled up her calves, revealing one human leg and one synthetic.  (source)
  • Dad has resigned from General Synthetics and is closing up his affairs; they'll kiss the world good-by this coming Wednesday— which is why he was being sterh about your plans to be away at that time.†  (source)
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