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Built, not born — and increasingly hard to tell the difference.
means Made by combining parts or chemicals rather than occurring naturally, often imitating something real.
from From Greek synthetikos, meaning put together, via synthesis — literally a placing-with, stitching separate things into one.
First plasticBakelite, 1907, was fully synthetic from scratch.
Word stretchNow tags everything from fabrics to opinions.
Logic twinPhilosophers use it for truths needing real-world checking.