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Recent Examples of arable
Scarce arable land and soil degradation further constrain food production.
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Mark Banchereau, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025
While farms like the Glendennings’ continued to pump out prunes on the arable land between the Bay and the mountains, the military-industrial complex set up along the mud flats.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
With most of the population living in urban areas, limited access to arable land and water becomes a major driver of food insecurity.
—David Beasley, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Seaweed grows fast, needs no pesticides, requires no arable land, and thrives in marine environments.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
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Mark Banchereau, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025
While farms like the Glendennings’ continued to pump out prunes on the arable land between the Bay and the mountains, the military-industrial complex set up along the mud flats.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
With most of the population living in urban areas, limited access to arable land and water becomes a major driver of food insecurity.
—David Beasley, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Seaweed grows fast, needs no pesticides, requires no arable land, and thrives in marine environments.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arable
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Those areas encompass some of Idaho’s most productive agricultural land, and farmers are already making difficult decisions, Erin Whorton, a water supply specialist with the federal Natural Resource Conservation Service working in Idaho, told the Statesman in an interview.—
Mark Dee
May 22,
Idaho Statesman,
22 May 2026
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As a result, many future physicians don't learn much about ecology, agricultural policy, or veterinary science.—
Neil Vora,
Time,
22 May 2026
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Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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In the runup to the 2025 Super Bowl, Fox had sold out its ads by August, a sign that advertisers were willing to pay a steep price for one of the last remaining monocultural events in America.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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Once commercial and agronomic datasets are harmonized, AI models can analyze how incentives propagate through the system and quantify their real impact on demand.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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The Latvian governing tripartite coalition, which also included an agrarian party, had been under strain for months over multiple issues.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
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Those two issues, in particular, women’s empowerment and agrarian reform, went over like a lead balloon with the archconservatives of the country, especially religious.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
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Some of those people may be professional myrmecologists (scientists who specialize in the study of ants) and fourmiculture (ant-farming) enthusiasts.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Arable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arable. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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