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
Even as he appealed to the state of nature, though, Rousseau questioned whether it could ever be recovered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
It’s a useful corrective for me to understand that the state of nature actually is the pull toward corruption and the pull toward self-dealing.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025
Tony Goldner, executive director of the TNFD, said that while the risks of climate change have long been a focus of many companies, the wider state of nature is beginning to be looked at.
From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2023
He was always in debt, she knew: to such easy-going creatures as he always seemed to be, debt was a state of nature.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
