natural state
Example Sentences
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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
According to your predilection, this designation will seem either a contradiction in terms or a natural state of affairs …
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
It’s about the belief that hierarchy, submission and obedience are the natural state of the world.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025
It was painted white to protect the wood, but decades of Antarctic weather have returned it to its natural state.
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024
Emptiness and disorder were the primeval, natural state of the cosmos, and there was always a nagging fear that at the end of time, disorder and void would reign once more.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
