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
It’s about the belief that hierarchy, submission and obedience are the natural state of the world.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 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
Three female Bison were released into countryside near Canterbury, Kent, in July 2022 to help restore the area to its natural state.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
Emptiness and disorder were the primeval, natural state of the cosmos, and there was always a nagging fear that at the end of time, disorder and void would reign once more.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
