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Recent Examples of monoculture
In The New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham praised Late Night as a last remnant of the monoculture.
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
Whereas audiences once consumed a relative monoculture fed by TV, radio and the press, the internet has fragmented us into a million musical silos.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 6 July 2025
As the argument goes, higher education has turned into an intellectual monoculture.
—Jesse Smith, National Review, 5 July 2025
To meet production needs, many operations are shifting toward monoculture plantations, which deplete soil nutrients and increase vulnerability to pests and disease.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
Whereas audiences once consumed a relative monoculture fed by TV, radio and the press, the internet has fragmented us into a million musical silos.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 6 July 2025
As the argument goes, higher education has turned into an intellectual monoculture.
—Jesse Smith, National Review, 5 July 2025
To meet production needs, many operations are shifting toward monoculture plantations, which deplete soil nutrients and increase vulnerability to pests and disease.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monoculture
Noun
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The authors of the Politecnico di Torino report agree, concluding that progress lies in combining agronomy, robotics and AI to enable smarter, more sustainable agriculture.—
Jill Barth,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Most people who live in Bowie work in agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting or mining, Census data shows.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Still, dairy farming's economics often show no mercy.—
Rick Barrett,
jsonline.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Even with innovative fish feed developments like insect larvae, salmon fish farming would deplete already diminished local fish foods.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As that happened, animal and plant populations shifted range or died out, and hunter-gatherer societies either became nomadic or clustered around remaining water sources and took up one or another form of sedentary agriculture, including the cultivation of the date palm.—
Jacob Jones,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Aug. 2025
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The cultivation and export of flowers has long been one of the most important industries in Colombia, but the best of the bunch always stay closer to home.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As forests receded—along with the elk—people in the Altai region began adopting semi-nomadic pastoralism and horseback riding.—
Margherita Bassi,
Popular Science,
24 July 2025
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Although zoonotic cases probably existed before 6,500 years ago, the risk and extent of zoonotic transmission probably increased with the widespread adoption of husbandry practices and pastoralism.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 July 2025
Noun
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Their findings add strong evidence that the rise of animal husbandry forever shaped humanity’s relationship with disease, though the timing defied their expectations.—
Christian Thorsberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 July 2025
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Last year, a new animal husbandry ordinance permitted residents to own honey bees, as well as chickens and ducks.—
Violet Ikonomova,
Freep.com,
17 July 2025
Noun
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Finding your community via identity is one thing, but some clubs go even more niche and have combined two different cultures—the Jewish one and the culture of cannabis.—
Sophie Liza Cannon,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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There is culture in the extraordinary Korean Festival held every October and in the Shades of LA collection at the LA Central Library, and in the unexpected angles of Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein house and the iconic curve of Gesner’s Malibu wave house.—
Ella Berman
August 7,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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Based in Chesterfield, Missouri, Bunge North America is an agribusiness that produces and markets multiple food ingredients including corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and feed peas.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
2 Aug. 2025
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The total number of recipients is estimated to be 210,000, according to the agribusiness data hub Tridge.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 July 2025
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“Monoculture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monoculture. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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