as in agricultural
engaged in or concerned with agriculture
an agrarian community the nation's agrarian history
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At the time, Oman was a primitively agrarian, ultratraditional, isolationist state where slavery was legal.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024
White Trash has nothing to say about the agrarian populism of the nineteenth century, which saw small farmers confront powerful banks and railroads over exploitative loans and rates.
—Jefferson Cowie, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
Whenever factional rivalries, regional tensions between Eastern and Western Republicans, or conflict between industrial and agrarian sections, threatened party unity, the tariff cemented them together.
—Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
Younger China hands saw the CCP as agrarian reformers with little interest in world revolution.
—Timothy Nunan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2017
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024
White Trash has nothing to say about the agrarian populism of the nineteenth century, which saw small farmers confront powerful banks and railroads over exploitative loans and rates.
—Jefferson Cowie, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
Whenever factional rivalries, regional tensions between Eastern and Western Republicans, or conflict between industrial and agrarian sections, threatened party unity, the tariff cemented them together.
—Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
Younger China hands saw the CCP as agrarian reformers with little interest in world revolution.
—Timothy Nunan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2017
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“Agrarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agrarian. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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