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man-made

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1. man-made - Adjective

2. man-made - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially

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man made

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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. Thomas Nagel

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. Sarah Palin

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. Ronald Reagan

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. Václav Klaus

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. Alan Kay

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. Benjamin Mkapa

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