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Recent Examples of arable
Declining rainfall, rising temperatures, and storms that kick up dense dust clouds have rendered vast swaths of once-arable land unusable.
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Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
At the same time, arable land per capita is shrinking and climate volatility is increasing.
—Sahit Muja, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Scarce arable land and soil degradation further constrain food production.
—Mark Banchereau, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025
While farms like the Glendennings’ continued to pump out prunes on the arable land between the Bay and the mountains, the military-industrial complex set up along the mud flats.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
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Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
At the same time, arable land per capita is shrinking and climate volatility is increasing.
—Sahit Muja, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Scarce arable land and soil degradation further constrain food production.
—Mark Banchereau, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025
While farms like the Glendennings’ continued to pump out prunes on the arable land between the Bay and the mountains, the military-industrial complex set up along the mud flats.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arable
Adjective
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These modular reactors can eventually be connected directly to active factory smokestacks and local agricultural biorefineries.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
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By leasing land owned by approximately 7,300 Maasai landowners, Cottar’s provides local communities with a sustainable income, while protecting wildlife habitat from agricultural development and subdivision.—
Sarah Kingdom,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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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
Adjective
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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
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Once commercial and agronomic datasets are harmonized, AI models can analyze how incentives propagate through the system and quantify their real impact on demand.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Photographer David Plowden started out chronicling American railroads in the postwar era before broadening his focus and hopscotching the country, using his camera to document the nation’s changing industrial and agrarian landscapes.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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The agrarian reform made little progress.—
Roberto Andrés,
The Dial,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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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
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“Arable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arable. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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