arable

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Recent Examples of arable The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024 The big picture: Cotton is a ubiquitous commodity, but cultivating the crop requires enormous amounts of water, not to mention arable land, potent fertilizer and vulnerable farm workers. Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024 Their entire homeland has been obliterated, including homes, schools, hospitals, places of worship, cultural monuments, treatment plants, water and waste infrastructure and arable land. Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024 But the authors of the new study write that past work overestimated the extent of rock gardens by misidentifying roads, lava flows and vegetation for arable land. Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for arable 

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“Arable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arable. Accessed 14 Dec. 2024.

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