synthetic
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Builders are pinching pennies to maintain profits in a stagnant housing market, choosing lower-end fixtures and synthetic over natural materials.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
The probe examines if Lululemon misled consumers about product safety, quality, and health impacts of its synthetic materials.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
“They’re doing so just in time to comply with the West Virginia law that bans those synthetic dyes statewide,” she states.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
"Our testing and trialling programmes for the production and introduction of competition and social-use synthetic shuttlecocks in collaboration with the manufacturers remains in place and is firmly part of our sustainability strategies for the future."
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Happiness had disappeared along with rubber, silk, and many other staples, to be replaced by the wartime synthetic, high morale, for the Duration.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Vocabulary lists containing synthetic
The Omnivore's Dilemma
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