natural order
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Besides appealing to what Disraeli’s later acolytes saw as the people’s inclination to a natural order, it reached around preoccupations with transforming institutions to tap into a deeper conservatism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
By making injustice into a kind of orphan, oppression is made to seem like the natural order of things.
From Salon ● May 31, 2026
Reason granted each individual the potential to understand the natural order and discern good from evil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
While research is still being done into their broader ecological impacts, Shin, the biologist, says that like many invasive species, lovebugs may find their own benign place in the natural order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
Yet feeding corn to cattle goes against the natural order almost as much feeding them beef.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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