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
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
