in a state of nature
Example Sentences
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There are those who think it’s about man in a state of nature, what we are capable of when society is made primal around us.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Which philosopher argued that all people are born free in a state of nature, and the government should exist only by their consent?
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
In 1773, they wrote in what are known as the Sheffield Resolves that “Mankind in a state of nature are equal, free, and independent of each other.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2022
In 1977, when power went out for only one summer day in New York, swaths of the city devolved into something like Hobbes’s man in a state of nature.
From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2017
He carefully collected the excrement, when, notwithstanding these birds eat much less in captivity than in a state of nature, it voided in a day from 3 1⁄2 to 5 oz.!
