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单词 astroturfed
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astroturfedadj.

Brit. /ˈastrəʊtəːft/, U.S. /ˈæstroʊˌtərft/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Astroturf v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < Astroturf v. + -ed suffix1.
1. Surfaced with Astroturf.
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1968 Boston Sunday Globe 25 Aug. 1/5 It will contain a regulation-size Astro-turfed football field and a quarter-mile track.
1984 Times 9 Oct. 13/1 They were speaking on the astro-turfed roof terrace of Lloyd Webber's Soho offices.
2011 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. 3 Newly astroturfed tennis courts in Alexandra are expected to reopen in three weeks.
2. Of a professionally orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign: falsely presented as having arisen from unsolicited public comments or grass-roots support; generated by astroturfing (astroturfing n. 2).
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1999 Open Let. Thanks in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet newsgroup) 16 Aug. There was an ‘astroturfed?’ thread..about..Linux.
2015 M. Rimmer in C. Lawson & B. Charnley Intellect. Property & Genetically Modified Organisms (2016) vii. 146 Malkan argued that the opponents of GM labelling were running an astroturfed, faux populist campaign.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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