as in agricultural
engaged in or concerned with agriculture
an agrarian community the nation's agrarian history
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Recent Examples of agrarian
The study ultimately reinforces the pivotal relationship between agrarian societies and dogs, despite dog domestication usually being associated with hunter-gatherer groups.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2025
Through the rejection of violence and the building of a peaceful agrarian society, Tolstoy believed that the task of creating the kingdom of God could be accomplished, not as a longed-for afterlife, but as a living, historic reality.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Through the rejection of violence and the building of a peaceful agrarian society in accordance with Georgist principles, Tolstoy believed that the Christian task of creating the kingdom of God could be accomplished, not as a longed-for afterlife, but as a living, historic reality.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
The Nuba were traditionally agrarian, but by the late twentieth century raising cattle had become an important part of their livelihood.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2025
Through the rejection of violence and the building of a peaceful agrarian society, Tolstoy believed that the task of creating the kingdom of God could be accomplished, not as a longed-for afterlife, but as a living, historic reality.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Through the rejection of violence and the building of a peaceful agrarian society in accordance with Georgist principles, Tolstoy believed that the Christian task of creating the kingdom of God could be accomplished, not as a longed-for afterlife, but as a living, historic reality.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
The Nuba were traditionally agrarian, but by the late twentieth century raising cattle had become an important part of their livelihood.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agrarian
agricultural
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The event also will pay tribute to the state's agricultural diversity, which is second only to California, organizers said.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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Due to industrial sugar cane and pineapple mono-cropping, and a historic lack of Indigenous agricultural autonomy, our once plentiful endemic plants are now under threat.—
D. Kauwila Mahi,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
24 July 2025
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“Agrarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agrarian. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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