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 never needed to be told to keep my heart open while watching a film; that’s its natural state.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

First, pessimism is the natural state for any contemplations of peace in the Middle East.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 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

The natural state of things is coldness, and houses are fragile havens, holdouts in a death landscape, unforgettably comfortable, simple though they are, just because of their warmth.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles