WordNet
by artificial means
adv. not according to nature; not by natural means; "artificially induced conditions" [syn: artificially, unnaturally] [ant: naturally]
Usage examples of "by artificial means".
There are protocols built in to the machine, protocols I can do nothing about, that forbid the creation of colloidal sentiences by artificial means.
Plenty of them have artificial tickers, but they like to stomp around every few years and talk about how it's against the rules of God and humankind to prolong life by artificial means.
Their breasts moved with breathing, but the labored irregularity of that motion contained the same pattern (differing only in degree) as the breathing of a terminal sickness, the breathing of a dying person preserved beyond his time by artificial means.