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  "id": "natural.ordinary",
  "term": "natural",
  "sense": "ordinary",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "word",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "not made by humans",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "human.person",
      "make.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "human persons make things and the things that are not made by them are natural",
    "novel_properties": [
      "exists without human intervention",
      "arises from nature"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Amazon rainforest regenerates its canopy after storms without human intervention.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mississippi River carved its delta over millennia through sediment deposition.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "Alpha Centauri emits light as a result of internal fusion processes.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "real.actual",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "natural",
    "naturals"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-natural.ordinary"
}