Definition of "manufactured" []

• Manmade; produced by humans rather than nature (adjective)
• Not genuine (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of manufacture. (verb)

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• "WIAN: Another activist on behalf of illegal aliens, the director of the Central American Resource Center urged San Francisco to, quote, "slow down and not react to what she called a manufactured crisis.""
• "KOINANGE: In the meantime, the opposition insists they'll continue to petition the election outcome, unwilling to concede what they call a manufactured victory."
• "Hooper conceded the poster "crosses the line," but refused to renounce the artwork and blamed critics for fomenting what he called a manufactured controversy."