natural state

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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

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

National park status means that the area will be set aside for preservation of the natural environment, ensuring that most of the landscapes and accompanying plants and animals are kept in their natural state.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024

Before them people believed Aristotle, who said that the natural state of a body was to be at rest and that it moved only if driven by a force or impulse.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking