arable

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Recent Examples of arable Scarce arable land and soil degradation further constrain food production. 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 See All Example Sentences for arable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arable
Adjective
  • The massive delta is revered not only for its capacious water supply and agricultural support, but also its famed Delta breeze that often brings relief from stretches of hot weather.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
  • Fertilizer prices track the cost of natural gas, one of their principal production inputs, meaning energy shocks ripple directly into the agricultural markets.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Adjective
  • Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game.
    J.J. Bailey, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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 31 May. 2026.

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