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Recent Examples of monoculture
These provide habitat and a food source for insects and critters that otherwise might not thrive in a traditional monoculture system.
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David Rosoff, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
There’s really no escaping this last relic of U.S. monoculture.
—Samantha Allen, Them, 30 Jan. 2025
The World Wide Web blasted the monoculture to smithereens.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
There are many unpleasant things to not miss about the monoculture of our increasingly distant past — but coalescing around a unified interest, and the feeling of togetherness arising from that act, is not one of them.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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David Rosoff, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
There’s really no escaping this last relic of U.S. monoculture.
—Samantha Allen, Them, 30 Jan. 2025
The World Wide Web blasted the monoculture to smithereens.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
There are many unpleasant things to not miss about the monoculture of our increasingly distant past — but coalescing around a unified interest, and the feeling of togetherness arising from that act, is not one of them.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for monoculture
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monoculture
Noun
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The King is known to be a supporter of sustainable agriculture.—
Lucy Handley,
CNBC,
3 Mar. 2025
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And industries that rely on younger people, including construction and agriculture, are in need of staff.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN,
2 Mar. 2025
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From the end of World War II to 1973, U.S. business productivity (outside of farming) grew at a brisk annual rate of 2.8 percent.—
Matthew J. Slaughter,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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By contrast, insect farming has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 80% when compared to conventional livestock farming methods.—
Oyku Ilgar,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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In an effort to permit hemp cultivation while prohibiting production of a psychoactive plant, the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 defined hemp as all parts of the cannabis plant with less than 0.3 percent concentration of delta-9 THC by dry weight.—
Katharine Neill Harris,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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After a military coup in 1961, the new authoritarian leadership tied its economic program to the cultivation of a citizenry that was smaller and better educated.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Rather than being constantly on the move, traditional Maasai pastoralism has been more about strategic relocation.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes,
9 Sep. 2024
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For her, this discovery adds to the evidence that nomadic dairy pastoralism has sustained Mongolians for thousands of years.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
25 June 2024
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While there has been loads of research on animal husbandry, there has not been all that much investigation into animals’ conscious experiences outside their role as food products for humans.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Nov. 2024
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This ordinance embraces the presence of livestock and bees through animal husbandry.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Detroit Free Press,
27 Nov. 2024
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Again, this is hybrid intelligence: code plus culture, algorithms plus empathy.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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The series examines the lives of icons, underdogs and rising stars to find out who the people are shaping our culture — for real.—
Josh Rottenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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If implemented, said the California Water Policy Network, Trump’s order will devastate the largest estuary in the western continental U.S. to the benefit of a small number of agribusiness enterprises in the Central Valley.—
Ari Plachta,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
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According to Michigan Grown, a coalition of farmers and agribusinesses in the state, Michigan produces 68 million pounds of fresh cucumbers, totaling $15 million in sales in 2016.—
Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Monoculture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monoculture. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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