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Yes, synthetic is playable

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"Synthetic" Definition

noun

A synthetic chemical compound or material.
Something resulting from rather than occurring naturally.
A product (as a drug or plastic) of chemical synthesis.

adjective

Chemistry Produced by synthesis, especially not of natural origin.
Linguistics Relating to or being a language, such as Latin or Russian, that uses inflectional affixes to express syntactic relationships.
Logic & Philosophy Relating to or being a proposition that attributes to a subject a predicate not inherent in the subject and that does not result in a contradiction if negated.
Not natural or genuine; artificial or contrived: "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic” ( George F. Will).
Prepared or made artificially: synthetic leather. See Synonyms at artificial.

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