natural order
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natural orders
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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
This is taught as the natural order of the world, and is then often applied more broadly to society.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 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
No one connected various phases of insects to one another, and no one knew where to fit them into the natural order.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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