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

I’ve met enough artists who say, “I feel totally myself onstage,” to know that there’s a natural state in which people feel comfortable up there.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 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

“And further out one sees the sea in its natural state, and that’s beautiful. Yesterday everything was grey.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman