the natural world
noun
: all of the animals, plants, and other things existing in nature and not made or caused by people
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The featureless face on the left, gilded from the crown of the head to the midline of the nose (perhaps a nod to classical drawing), shifts deeply into abstraction and human obscurity within the natural world.
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Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Matt, for instance, adapted a Lorraine Hansberry play, What Use Are Flowers?, into a device of his own invention called Melia, which uses a field microphone, an old physics-lab computer, and a neural-net algorithm to meld the human voice with the sounds of the natural world.
—Joshua Bennett, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
When Nelson travels to pockets of the natural world that remain (more or less) intact, the results are not all that different.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Observation of the natural world was key to Dutch painting, whether in still-life, landscape or portraiture.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
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Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Matt, for instance, adapted a Lorraine Hansberry play, What Use Are Flowers?, into a device of his own invention called Melia, which uses a field microphone, an old physics-lab computer, and a neural-net algorithm to meld the human voice with the sounds of the natural world.
—Joshua Bennett, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
When Nelson travels to pockets of the natural world that remain (more or less) intact, the results are not all that different.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Observation of the natural world was key to Dutch painting, whether in still-life, landscape or portraiture.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the natural world
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“The natural world.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20natural%20world. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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