natural world
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandworld
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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world
noun
uk/wɜːld/us/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandworldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnatural world
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However, in thenaturalworld, images of objects often overlap.
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Perhaps the entirenaturalworldwas strictly deterministic.
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Other methods also base analogies on thenaturalworld.
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The analogy with thenaturalworldis obvious.
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Informal recreations involving thenaturalworldcontinued to dominate.
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Immaterial souls would simply stand out as surds in thenaturalworld.
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My reason for rejecting immaterialism has less to do with resurrection than with thenaturalworld.
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The losses are ones that cannot be recovered in thenaturalworld.
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Only by divine intervention does thenaturalworldhave continued existence.
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Both were born into religious families but secularized by their study of thenaturalworld.
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The word 'nature' which in the past described thenaturalworldhas been displaced by environment.
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In other words, the law uses language to authorise and legitimise the social andnaturalworld.
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Mythical belief and enchantment of thenaturalworldare simply not coincident.
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Classifications of thenaturalworldabounded and distinctions between humans, animals, and plants were reinvented.
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Ancestral humans lived in a world which was full of dangers from thenaturalworld.
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Thenaturalworldis usually intractable in terms of ideals, but it is opaque without them.
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Even knowledge of the deity is on a par with true information concerning thenaturalworld.
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Symmetry is ubiquitous in thenaturalworldand the cultural world.
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He views human actions from the larger perspective of thenaturalworld.
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However, much of visual behavior in thenaturalworldis based on larger contrasts and signals.
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Thenaturalworldis characterised as unruly, profligate, and indecently fecund.
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We are limited by the relation between our capabilities as organisms and the structure of thenaturalworld.
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In a scientific experiment the object world responds to questions put and trials made upon it - thenaturalworld'speaks'.
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He uses examples from thenaturalworldand bridge design to illustrate his case for simple means and paring down.
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