arable

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Recent Examples of arable 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 For instance, the Bangladesh delta, one of the most fertile and densely populated areas in the world, is already experiencing problems, including salinity intrusion, rising sea levels and the loss of arable land. Pintu Kumar Mahla, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025 According to Keel Labs, its Kelsun fiber is made from seaweed biopolymers and requires no freshwater or arable land while remaining non-toxic and biodegradable. Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for arable
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Adjective
  • The demonstration also touched on various issues that Americans have been facing including the rising cost of food and gas due in part to tariffs, the war in Iran and immigration sweeps that experts have said contributed to a shortage of agricultural workers.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
  • Ken Foster, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, said there is typically a 3- to 6-month lag between an energy price shock and an increase in retail food prices.
    Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 1 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
  • If Bruce Springsteen’s greatest gift was mythologizing the existential open graves swallowing up blue-collar workers, Mellencamp’s was his piercing ability to at once celebrate and dismantle agrarian fantasy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This includes some of the most fertile agrarian regions in the south of the country, which is a key supplier of grain to the world.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 28 Apr. 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 7 May. 2026.

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