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monocultural

adjective

Definition of monoculturalnext
as in agricultural

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Recent Examples of monocultural The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026 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 KPop Demon Hunters is proving that a genre once — rightly or wrongly — deemed too niche to crossover in the Western market can create a monocultural moment. — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monocultural
  1. agricultural
  2. agrarian
  3. arable
  4. agronomic
  5. farming
Adjective
  • So, if someone had a way of turning this global poison into a global ecological and agricultural balm, that’d be good, right?
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Sep. 2026
  • While Peru has traded largely tariff-free under a 2009 agreement, the new duties have hit Peru's agricultural exports, specifically blueberries, grapes and avocados.
    — Marco Aquino, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of agricultural
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  • Both candidates promise to prioritize housing, affordability and maintaining Yolo County’s small-town feel and agrarian nature.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Rather, my aim in the following pages is to show how a set of novels by Gallegos and Güiraldes posed and answered agrarian questions in a manner that only the novel could, on the level of aesthetic form.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of agrarian
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  • Her parents had drained swamps in order to create arable land and served in the Haganah pre-state military organization.
    — Natasha Mozgovaya, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Given China’s shrinking labor force and the effects of overproduction and climate change on its arable land, Beijing is likely to remain reliant on foreign food products in the coming years.
    — Caitlin Welsh, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of arable
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  • Work on the 2025 vintage includes the use of Bouquet, a disease-resistant variety, a choice that is, allegedly, both agronomic and commercial.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • An agronomic guide or a turf guide will provide the optimal mower height for your specific type of grass.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026
Definition of agronomic
Adjective
  • Connecticut has also seen a boom in backyard growers popping up in suburban neighborhoods with micro-farming businesses becoming more popular.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026
  • 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
Definition of farming

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“Monocultural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocultural. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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