artificiality
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The artificiality of all this, however, has pitted him against traditionalists who believe in the ocean's ability to self-heal.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Yet Voisard believes people are increasingly tuning into animal livestreams to escape artificiality.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
He does not like the artificiality of the racing with the overtake mode and boost buttons.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
We have moved from the likeness of thought, expressed through artificiality, to the plausible existence of the real thing, artificially achieved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
No matter how much we hobnob, there’s an air of artificiality in this reimagined best-friendship.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
In all our anxiety over artificialities, we haven’t thought carefully enough about how to distinguish between rank cheating and the murkier world of performance enhancement.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2022
All of the celebrity tributes and voice-over videos were artificialities, junk, compared to the audience’s acclaim for Serena Williams, the pure roaring waterfalls of applause that thundered down in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2022
Basketball, on the other hand, has its own rituals and artificialities and weird rituals, and I will sit through pretty much anything basketball-related.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2012
They cannot escape from their overbearing surfaces and artificialities.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 27, 2012
It is hard to imagine Tom Smith surrounded by the artificialities of show business, standing in a glitzy showring, loosing horses to run in chaotic sprints, and not think that something precious was being squandered.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
