Definition of "artificially" []

• In an artificial manner. (adverb)

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• "This is what I refer to as artificially constraining legislation."
• "Hachette has become the latest publisher to announce that it was done with what it calls the artificially depressed e-book prices imposed by Amazon."
• "Fossil fuels remain artificially cheap because we don't have to make them; we simply withdraw them from the global account, clean and purify them a bit, and burn them up."