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Man-made vs. Synthetic/Artificial

Synthetic or manufactured are better alternatives to 'man-made'.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

The lake is man-made.

✓ Correct

The lake is artificial.

The ruleii

SYNTHETIC, ARTIFICIAL, or MANUFACTURED are gender-neutral ways to describe things not occurring…

'Man-made' is a very common idiom, but it attributes all human creation to one gender.

Memory aidiii

Remember it like this

Synthetic = Science/Systematic.

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