Anartificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
“How quickly have I fallen!” thought Tarzan; but in his heart he did not consider it a fall—rather, he pitied the poor creatures of Paris, penned up like prisoners in their silly clothes, and watched by policemen all their poor lives, that they might do nothing that was not entirelyartificial and tiresome.
1990 February 19, Peter Burnham,The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction, Springer,→ISBN, page73:
This results in anartificial conflation of the individual crises experienced by Western European states and leads to imprecise judgements on the impact of Marshall. This confusing conflation is not simply the product of retrospection.
2002 May 9, Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, Michael Sonenscher,Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, page35:
[If] the economic literature of the eighteenth century is examined in terms other than the narrow categories of free trade and protection, theartificial division between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries would break down .
2016 November 10, Gabriele Lakomski, Scott Eacott, Colin W. Evers,Questioning Leadership: New directions for educational organisations, Taylor & Francis,→ISBN, page156:
In Alberta, for example, policy documents reinforce anartificial distinction between leadership-related activity and management.
2017 July 12, A. Javier Trevino,The Sociology of Law: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge,→ISBN:
The method of suppression is generally either anartificial conflation of public and private, in which the public is represented as private, or anartificial separation of public from private, which distracts attention from the public[…]
1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London:Columbia University Press,→OCLC,page 3:
Artificial keys are devised purely to facilitate determination[…]
(bridge) Conveying somemeaning other than the actual contents of one'shand.
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2024 December 2, Rosa Rahimi, “La palabra del año de Oxford es una condición moderna que nos resulta familiar a la mayoría de nosotros”, inCNN en Español[2]:
La palabra superó a otras cinco candidatas preseleccionadas, que incluían “lore”, que significa un conjunto de (supuestos) hechos, información de fondo y anécdotas necesarias para comprender algo por completo; “romantasy”, un acrónimo para literatura que combina elementos de ficción romántica y fantasía; y “slop”, que se refiere a contenido de baja calidad generado por inteligenciaartificial.
The word beat out five other shortlisted candidates, including ‘lore’, which means a set of (supposed) facts, background information and anecdotes necessary to fully understand something; ‘romantasy’, an acronym for literature that combines elements of romantic fiction and fantasy; and ‘slop’, which refers to low-quality content generated byartificial intelligence.
