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In 1975, an ex-city engineer named Emmett Wahlman pitched an even more improbable quasi-natural enhancement: a salmon stream running from Capitol Hill along Pike Street and Westlake Avenue to Lake Union.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2018

Not in the sense of “as nature intended,” but quasi-natural.

From Newsweek

And the question of the prolonged existence of this comparatively new social phenomenon, either in its present or some modified form, turns, therefore, entirely on the quasi-natural laws of the social body.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Now moral virtue is so called from mos in the sense of a natural or quasi-natural inclination to do some particular action.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Sometimes it means a natural or quasi-natural inclination to do some particular action, in which sense the word is applied to dumb animals.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint