rural
adjective
, ˈrər(-ə)l\
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adverb
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bucolic, country, pastoral, rustic (also rustical)
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The task force will soon break into four subcommittees that will examine four big subject areas: K-12 budgeting; the teacher pipeline; rural and underserved schools and school safety and facilities. — Kevin Richert, idahostatesman, "Little’s K-12 task force has two big priorities: literacy and student life after high school," 4 June 2019 Patients in rural or inner city areas or at community hospitals that lack staff to work on special requests may be disadvantaged. — sun-sentinel.com, "US aims to help more cancer patients try experimental drugs," 3 June 2019 Carter and his wife Rosalynn live in the small, rural town of Plains in southwestern Georgia, where they were born, raised and married. — CBS News, "Jimmy Carter finally gets tenure after 37 years at Emory University," 3 June 2019 In rural North Carolina, landowners seeking to end a federal program to reintroduce red wolves to the wild went door-to-door saying the animals were dangerous. — Darryl Fears, The Denver Post, "Killing wolves was supposed to solve a problem but created issue with coyotes," 3 June 2019 Here is June's list, ranked in order of urgency: Azory Gwanda, a freelance journalist working in rural Tanzania, has been missing since November 21, 2017 following his investigation of mysterious killings in his community. — Wired Staff, WIRED, "The One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack," 3 June 2019 Now!, Women with a Vision, Feminist Women’s Health Center, Women Engaged, and ARC Southeast are some additional groups supporting rural and low income communities to be powerful. — Alicia Garza, Marie Claire, "Can We Have a Conversation About Abortion Bans and the South?," 29 May 2019 Some of this year’s fires were caused by rural residents burning yard debris. — Kimberly Cauvel, The Seattle Times, "Washington faces especially bad wildfire season," 28 May 2019 The garden, designed by Jilayne Rickards, is a recreation of a rural Zimbabwean outdoor classroom, with rocky red soil planted with edible crops, including iron-rich beans, papaya, and banana trees. — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, "The Top 5 Takeaways from the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show," 23 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rural.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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