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artificial adjective adulterine, artificiosus, assumed, casuistic, concocted, deceptive, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, forged, illusory, imaginary, imagined, imitation, imitative, man-made, not natural, simulated, simulative, spurious, superficial, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal
Associated concepts: artificial boundaries, artificial ingrediints, artificial monuments, artificial person, artificial pond, artificial presumption, artificial watercourse
See also: bogus, deceptive, disingenuous, false, fictitious, histrionic, imitation, inflated, meretricious, orotund, pretentious, specious, spurious, synthetic

ARTIFICIAL. What is the result of, or relates to, the arts; opposed to natural; thus we say a corporation is an artificial person, in opposition to a natural person. Artificial accession is the uniting one property to another by art, opposed to a simple natural union. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 503.



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Byline: Rachel Pagones WHENEVER we talk about the potential of artificial breeding technologies, such as artificial insemination and cloning, the first question raised is this: What would racing look like if all the pedigrees were similar, or the same?
IMPLICATIONS The decision to incorporate AI should consider more than the cash costs associated with artificial breeding.
Clean Seas, meanwhile, is said to be the first organization in the world to create an artificial breeding regime for southern bluefin tuna.
 
 
 
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