artifice
Example Sentences
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Anytime the film veers into computer-generated territory, it takes on a sheen of cheesy artifice.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
The world that shaped Miller’s early years was one of suburban perfection and sheltered artifice, a nostalgic ideal so far removed from reality that it shares a developer with Disney World.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025
The story is told in the form of letters and emails, an artifice rarely embraced by readers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025
The painted mountainscapes and Kate Hawley’s costuming are pure artifice in a production in which every mad-scientist detail seems otherwise calibrated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Haydn's aim was the manufacturing of beauty and elegance in the material world; he was conscious that what he was doing was artifice, not a divine intervention.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing artifice
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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Divergent
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