Synthetic

The chairs are made of a synthetic material.

I'm allergic to synthetic rubber.

German is a synthetic language.

Using high heat settings while ironing synthetic fabrics will melt the synthetic fibers and cause visible permanent damage, which often looks like a shiny area where the too-hot iron had the longest contact with the fabric.

In the postbiological era, synthetic bodies became the new home of human minds.

I must be careful with how I sit in this cheap IKEA office chair, to make sure that the two screws poking through the synthetic cover don't prick me in the thighs.

They want to create a synthetic life form.

Tires are made from synthetic rubber.

Are those synthetic or cultured pearls?

This is a synthetic language.

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said.