Usage Note
Artificialmente modifies verbs or adjectives to indicate something done in an artificial, manufactured, or non-natural way: prezzi artificialmente gonfiati ('artificially inflated prices'). It derives from artificiale (artificial) + the adverbial suffix -mente. Register is neutral to formal; common in economic and scientific writing.
Examples
"I prezzi sono stati artificialmente abbassati."
Natural Translation
The prices were artificially lowered.
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