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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Now, though, she’s embarked on a less commercial path to focus on the relationship between design and the natural world. —

Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 18 Nov. 2024 This election season, even as hurricanes battered North Carolina and Florida, the natural world has been notably absent from both the Trump and the Harris campaigns. —

Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 From Wood Sage & Sea Salt to Lime Basil & Mandarin, the scents channel oceans, orchards, and other stars of the natural world. —

Jenny Berg, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2024 The director illustrates much of this through long, patient takes, often keeping distance with interjections of a slow push in towards Lee’s face, studying him in meditation as the the sounds of the natural world quietly score the scene, as though the two are in communion. —

Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the natural world

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