: manufactured, created, or constructed by human beings
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Examples of man-made in a Sentence
man-made diamonds that were really just glass
the houses in the new development are built around a man-made lake
Recent Examples on the Web
The Thunderbolt siren first came on the market in the 1950s as a Cold War-era air raid siren and was later reissued as a multipurpose warning system for all kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made.
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Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 May 2024
Crews had been removing natural and man-made debris in forests across the country over the past few weeks to prevent such a disaster, Stampoulidis said.
—Paul Tugwell, Fortune Europe, 9 Apr. 2024
More than 15 years earlier, Andrés had begun channeling his status as a celebrity chef into tireless work in the world’s most desperate places, hammered by disasters natural and man-made.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
The killings occurred as Gaza reels from a hunger crisis humanitarian officials say is man-made and due in large part to Israel’s obstruction of aid.
—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
And given the distressing frequency of various natural and man-made disasters, approval of AT&T’s proposal should hinge on the availability of equally reliable ways to call for help.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
Gaza is suffering a spreading hunger crisis that aid officials describe as man-made, caused by limited entry points for supplies, an onerous Israeli inspection process and Israeli attacks on aid convoys and the local police that guard them.
—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
In their gaseous phase, many natural and man-made molecules, including ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and methanol, absorb photons when stimulated at terahertz frequencies, and those absorption bands can serve as chemical fingerprints.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024
By adopting these simple measures, the United States can save lives during a natural or man-made disaster like an EMP attack.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 May 2024
Crews had been removing natural and man-made debris in forests across the country over the past few weeks to prevent such a disaster, Stampoulidis said.
—Paul Tugwell, Fortune Europe, 9 Apr. 2024
More than 15 years earlier, Andrés had begun channeling his status as a celebrity chef into tireless work in the world’s most desperate places, hammered by disasters natural and man-made.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
The killings occurred as Gaza reels from a hunger crisis humanitarian officials say is man-made and due in large part to Israel’s obstruction of aid.
—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
And given the distressing frequency of various natural and man-made disasters, approval of AT&T’s proposal should hinge on the availability of equally reliable ways to call for help.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
Gaza is suffering a spreading hunger crisis that aid officials describe as man-made, caused by limited entry points for supplies, an onerous Israeli inspection process and Israeli attacks on aid convoys and the local police that guard them.
—Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
In their gaseous phase, many natural and man-made molecules, including ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and methanol, absorb photons when stimulated at terahertz frequencies, and those absorption bands can serve as chemical fingerprints.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024
By adopting these simple measures, the United States can save lives during a natural or man-made disaster like an EMP attack.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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“Man-made.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man-made. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.
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