How to Use Hobbesian in a Sentence
Hobbesian
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The series features epic wars among clans of feral cats who inhabit a Hobbesian world.
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Simon Montlake,
The Christian Science Monitor,
2024-04-09
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To this day, Libya remains trapped in a Hobbesian hell of internecine warfare and lawlessness.
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Max Boot,
Foreign Affairs,
2023-03-10
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Throughout much of the 17th century, the Hobbesian view seemed to be on the winning side of history.
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Joseph Loconte,
National Review,
2022-04-02
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The classic red-pill awakening, whether in art or in life, is one that reveals the supposedly cutthroat, Hobbesian nature of the world.
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Jenny Offill,
The New York Review of Books,
2020-11-03
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There are extremely suboptimal futures in which our species straggles onward in a brutish, Hobbesian nightmare — back to the Stone Age.
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Joel Achenbach,
Washington Post,
2022-11-07
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There’s also a genuine attempt to explore the traditional tropes of the apocalyptic setting, like the descent into Hobbesian sadism.
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Will Bedingfield,
WIRED,
2023-01-12
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The author, Scott Borgerson, wrote: The next few years will be critical in determining whether the region's long-term future will be one of international harmony and the rule of law, or a Hobbesian free-for-all.
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Keith Kloor,
Discover Magazine,
2010-03-25
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