as in agricultural
engaged in or concerned with agriculture
an agrarian community the nation's agrarian history
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The city has ramped up its efforts to support Detroit’s agrarian industry.
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Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Such stories had powerful meanings for agrarian societies with ghosts representing the desires and experiences of peasant society.
—Tithi Bhattacharya / Made By History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
Their routines have long endured on the fringes of their worlds, with Nina driving back and forth from her plain, modern life and the wilds of the mountain villages and Walter’s sometimes agrarian, sometimes intellectual upbringing.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
The fundamental factors that drove Bangladesh’s evolution from a low-income, agrarian economy to a thriving industrial and digital powerhouse are still intact.
—Sylvana Quader Sinha, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Such stories had powerful meanings for agrarian societies with ghosts representing the desires and experiences of peasant society.
—Tithi Bhattacharya / Made By History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
Their routines have long endured on the fringes of their worlds, with Nina driving back and forth from her plain, modern life and the wilds of the mountain villages and Walter’s sometimes agrarian, sometimes intellectual upbringing.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
The fundamental factors that drove Bangladesh’s evolution from a low-income, agrarian economy to a thriving industrial and digital powerhouse are still intact.
—Sylvana Quader Sinha, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Agrarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agrarian. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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