How to Use human nature in a Sentence
human nature
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Our human nature becomes tricky during times like these.
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 9 May 2021
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Notice, though, if those plotlines start eroding your view of human nature.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 15 June 2021
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Call big government human nature, or something like that.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 27 May 2021
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But denying truth — especially truths about human nature — has a way of coming back to haunt us.
—Samuel Gregg, National Review, 24 May 2021
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As Hasker sees it, the real problem here is human nature, not rogue AI.
—Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 28 June 2024
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The true meaning is a chance for the faithful to explore the inner soul, human nature and how people are connected.
—oregonlive, 12 May 2021
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But rebooting myths as realistic novels is tricky, because human nature often gets skewed in the retelling.
—Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 6 May 2021
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The show is willing to risk its own likability to sling ugly truths about TV, fame, and human nature.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021
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Crime fiction is at it’s best when telling a compelling story while also analyzing the shadowy foundations of human nature.
—Washington Post, 27 May 2021
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Myths provide a key to understanding human nature and the greatest civilizations.
—Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 28 May 2021
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Books and articles--scientific as well as theological--have been written on human nature.
—Arkansas Online, 2 July 2021
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To help customers shift behavior in a positive direction, business leaders must relearn what human nature is, help people be better at it and not be an obstacle.
—Olof Schybergson, Forbes, 24 June 2021
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Patients should try not to ask for specific treatments, and physicians should be more diligent about ensuring their prescriptions are the most appropriate, but human nature has its way.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 May 2021
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It’s the tale of human nature in the most dire of circumstances.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2022
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Come for the romp but stay for the study of human nature and human survival.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
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Just as the chimps taught me about chimp and human nature, these children taught me a lot.
—Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 2 June 2022
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Give and take, good and bad have always been part of our human nature.
—Yuen Pin Yeap, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
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That might have been the best thing that could have happened to the Aztecs, at least in the human nature department.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
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She has been loved and reviled and that’s human nature.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
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Rather, her work deals in human nature and the nature of emotions.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
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Much has changed over 2,500 years, but not human nature.
—William Falk, The Week, 19 Nov. 2022
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That’s human nature to kind of question yourself and things like that.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
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Or will we always be bound by the most base desires of human nature, destined to come up short of our ideals for the rest of time?
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
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It’s only human nature to want to hear that things are going great.
—Mike Pongon, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
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Clever and adept at reading human nature, Cullen is ready to fight his own battles.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022
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The trouble often boils down to one thing: human nature.
—Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
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Francis Lawrence: This time the story is much more about human nature.
—WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
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There’s something in Albee’s play that is so true to human nature.
—Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2024
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Soon the players fear not only dying at the hands of the game masters, but by each other, as the worst parts of human nature come out.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
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No wonder Sigmund Freud was drawn to this treasury of human nature.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
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