As opposed to naturally occurring or unintentionally produced by human activity. It would include commodities, products, merchandise, parts, materials, etc. Specifically a thing that has any work put into it.

Or it may not be an attempt to manipulate the market, just base on sources of information that price could go higher in the future.

I was thinking about if there is a word like "waker" and what meanings it has, or how would people feel about it if they heard it. Can we call the person who wakes others up a waker? And if I call a person an early waker or an every day waker, can it also mean that he is a person who wakes up (...

I waited for a word from you since the time I got the news that you had fled. or I waited for a word from you from the time I got the news that you had fled. Please help. Since or From?

He inhaled the melancholic air of the house. He inhaled the melancholy air of the house. Which one would be correct?

I'm revising a concise synopsis of a child with certain special needs. In the Strengths section, there's a phrase that's taking up too much space: good at making connections with what he’s already learned. I need something more concise that gets this idea across to teachers.

While writing a report and needing to be brief I wondered if I could use a single word to call a subset of researchers dealing with biomimetics (the science of replicating biological solutions in technology). "People studying biomimetics" sounds rather cumbersome, so a single-word solution would ...

I'd like to briefly describe a number of large objects that are half-submerged into a swamp, and nothing quite fits so far. Just "sunken" or the like might work in a pinch, but I thought I'd ask in case someone knows a word that quickly communicates that the objects are also clearly visible above...