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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manmade

also man-made, c.1718, from man (n.) + made. In early use typically of institutions, etc., and opposed to what is natural or god-made. Of fibers, foodstuffs, etc., from mid-20c.

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manmade

a. created by a human.

Usage examples of "manmade".

Until about two hundred years ago, I had thought that persons like me were a byproduct of that manmade catastrophe of over half a millennium ago, which came quite close to exterminating man.

Also, manmade burrows where crusher gauges had been buried and standing pipes with crystal gauges and threaded stakes of electrical wire running from South-10,000 to the tower base.

Jeeps and armored cars were driven off the platforms and parked in rows on the other side of the giant manmade cavern.

White twinkle lights lent a festive sparkle to all the trees, while a pair of unsynchronized spotlights swooped back and forth across the snow-covered peak of the manmade Big Foot Mountain.

I have read, or television has told me, about parts of space where the manmade boomerangs fly.

The stubs of the walls gave witness to the half-breed guideā€™s claim that the Spindle was a manmade wonder, for some were built of the same reddish stone as the spindle and still bore odd patterns, an alteration of checkering and spirals, at once foreign and familiar.

His troopers, all military-intelligence specialists, had to tell the difference between real atmospheric static and manmade static as they swept the frequencies.

And who will believe such simple and immense things when there are dexterous and labyrinthian creeds and philosophies of manmade and ever seductive complexity?

Over a long and incredibly interesting story arc, Sisko slowly learns how to practically handle the day-to-day duties of being a religious messenger, then gradually becomes an actual believer in his power as Emissary, then develops a crisis in faith halfway through the series, finally coming back to a newfound sense of duty by the end of the show that has nothing to do with the manmade constructs of Federation morals.

Even Robot, usually as unmoveable as a corpse, as unshakable as the manmade, soulless creation which had given him his nickname, blanched and managed to go another shade paler, if that was possible.

The colorful buildings set up above the harbor behind sturdy sea walls utilized manmade materials and modernistic surfaces in some sort of tough, textured plastic and a good deal of plasglas so no vista would be hidden from the occupiers.