synthetic

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Researchers identified several patterns that can appear in synthetic images.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

"They rely on highly personalised phishing emails, automatically generated malware, and synthetic identities that appear deceptively real," he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

These can be made either from municipal waste and no-food biomass, or from synthetic industrial processes, which take carbon from the atmosphere to produce the fuel, or a mix of both.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Makeup can also contain synthetic preservatives that are also based on petroleum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

There’s no question that this Texas-of-the- mind fable is often synthetic, sometimes untruthful, and frequently romantic, but that in no way diminishes its strength as a symbol.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck