natural state
Example Sentences
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One cannot avoid squabbling, she wrote, because it constitutes “the natural state of people pitted against each other, helplessly furious people.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
First, pessimism is the natural state for any contemplations of peace in the Middle East.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 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
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
