the human condition
noun
: part of being a person
The need to be loved is simply part of the human condition.
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Others invite audiences into embodied experiences without headsets, creating physical environments that challenge perceptions of reality, and confront the impact of technology on society and the human condition.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
The end result was that our selections were often three-hour black and white graphically violent war dramas in Hungarian with subtitles depicting (way too successfully, in my view) the misery of the human condition.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
Critics have long praised Beckett's existential work as one of the best plays of all time, exploring the themes of uncertainty, hope and the human condition.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
One finishes those books unclear on the particulars but certain that this whole wild world was built to teach us something, which is pretty much the human condition.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
The end result was that our selections were often three-hour black and white graphically violent war dramas in Hungarian with subtitles depicting (way too successfully, in my view) the misery of the human condition.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
Critics have long praised Beckett's existential work as one of the best plays of all time, exploring the themes of uncertainty, hope and the human condition.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
One finishes those books unclear on the particulars but certain that this whole wild world was built to teach us something, which is pretty much the human condition.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the human condition
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