natural state

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Even under Justinian law, though, a slave was property, and if freedom was a natural state, it wasn’t necessarily a permanent one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

But an authoritarian government is neither a natural state nor an inevitability.

From Slate • Sep. 27, 2025

It’s about the belief that hierarchy, submission and obedience are the natural state of the world.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

But other efforts to restore the watershed to a more natural state will continue for several years.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

To green activists, as the University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon has written, restoring this long-ago, putatively natural state is a task that society is morally bound to undertake.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann