as in agricultural
engaged in or concerned with agriculture
an agrarian community the nation's agrarian history
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Recent Examples of agrarian
What’s planned is something like the shifting of the agrarian village to an organized industry—producing wool for garments to be sold for the benefit of an absentee owner.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
The frontline feels like a giant game of Pac-Man as Russians try to gobble up remote agrarian villages where hardscrabble families eke out a desperate living.
—Susan Mathison, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
Today, traces of its agrarian past can be found woven into daily life.
—Lea Dlugosch, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2025
The group trains in Livermore at Basso’s Arena, tucked within the Tri-Valley’s rolling hills, where the agrarian lifestyle barely escapes the hustle and bustle of highway traffic and dense, multi-story buildings.
—Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
The frontline feels like a giant game of Pac-Man as Russians try to gobble up remote agrarian villages where hardscrabble families eke out a desperate living.
—Susan Mathison, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
Today, traces of its agrarian past can be found woven into daily life.
—Lea Dlugosch, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2025
The group trains in Livermore at Basso’s Arena, tucked within the Tri-Valley’s rolling hills, where the agrarian lifestyle barely escapes the hustle and bustle of highway traffic and dense, multi-story buildings.
—Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agrarian
agricultural
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The Monoculture Problem Just as agricultural monocultures make ecosystems vulnerable to disease, cognitive monocultures make human societies vulnerable to manipulation and groupthink.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The land could be returned to agricultural use after the project is completed, Aaron Menenberg, Idaho policy manager at Renewable Northwest, previously told the Idaho Statesman.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Agrarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agrarian. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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