After all, infrared scanners and laser- cutters were mere artifacts, tools; but faster reflexes, greater strength, and improved loyalty were crimes against nature.

Researchers using data mining techniques can be easily misled by these apparently significant results, even though they are mere artifacts of random variation.

In short, it is our opinion that the so-called Drown radio photographs are mere artifacts and totally without clinical value.

I am a mere artifact, an information gathering device dispatched by the Galactic authorities on a routine sweep of the sector.

This fact sometimes causes confusion about the "speed" of such static fields, which sometimes appear to change infinitely quickly when the changes in the field are mere artifacts of the motion of the observer, or of observation.

Carroll argues further that they are not mere artifacts of a mathematical process, but likely reflect physiological factors explaining differences in ability (e.g., nerve firing rates).

Similarly, finite-duration functions can be represented as a Fourier series, with no actual loss of information except that the periodicity of the inverse transform is a mere artifact.

Truly it seemed that the great demon did not believe that any mere artifact of metal and magic, whether forged by a god or not, could resist his strength.

What is true, however, is that the intense particularity and peculiarity that inspired Times Square's great mythologizers to write about the place as if it were a walled village are now mere artifacts - nostalgia magnets.

She had as much as admitted that that other woman was not a mere artifact of the drugs, that she was instead a part of Kalrind that the drugs had liberated.