artificial means

collocation in English

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artificial
adjective
uk
/ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/us
/ˌɑːr.t̬əˈfɪʃ.əl/
made by people, often as a copy of ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk
/miːn/us
/miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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The duty of using artificial means of preserving life.
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It should be noticed that the use of artificial means to mitigate these drawbacks presents limitations due to fish nature and behavior.
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It is important for the committee to argue that the impossibility of restoring cardiopulmonary function by artificial means is not necessary for the determination of death.
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It is unlikely that control of fertihty by artificial means has been practised and the situation is, therefore, of particular interest in relation to the demography of multiple births.
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He immediately asks if all artificial means are remedies, or are some, such as intravenous feeding, merely designed to supplant a natural means of sustaining life?
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Transitional spaces, which are neither internal nor external spaces, do not call upon artificial means of thermal control and somehow lessen the comfort expectations of the users.
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We should certainly be unwise to accelerate by artificial means a more rapid increase in the use of diesel-engined vehicles.
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They use wheelchairs whenever possible, and they try to deaden their legs through artificial means.
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Removal by artificial means is considered unlikely due to the lack of associated damage to the playa that a truck and winch would have caused.
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However, their scent and flavour is still vividly reminiscent of diethyl ether - presumably recreated via artificial means, in order to preserve the original flavour.
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Why this made the planet particularly valuable is uncertain since alloys could always be produced by artificial means.
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They stated that any attempt by artificial means to convert a majority into a minority is not only inequitable, but doomed to failure.
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Examples of customer service by artificial means are automated online assistants that can be seen as avatars on websites.
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In particular, critics complain about its artificial means of generating grammatical points and cultural contexts.
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Enlightenment needs only to be recognized, and is not produced by artificial means.
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The snow is densely packed into a form after having been produced by artificial means or collected from the ground after a snowfall.
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Artificial insemination is a form of assisted reproductive technology, which are methods used to achieve pregnancy by artificial or partially artificial means.
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Anaplastology is the art and science of restoring absent or malformed anatomy through artificial means.
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His brother has extracted the ultimate technique through artificial means and his power is growing.
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