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
Freedom Colonies were primarily rural and agrarian, centering around land ownership, farming, and cooperative living.
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
What’s planned is something like the shifting of the agrarian village to an organized industry—producing wool for garments to be sold for the benefit of an absentee owner.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
The frontline feels like a giant game of Pac-Man as Russians try to gobble up remote agrarian villages where hardscrabble families eke out a desperate living.
—Susan Mathison, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
Today, traces of its agrarian past can be found woven into daily life.
—Lea Dlugosch, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2025
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
What’s planned is something like the shifting of the agrarian village to an organized industry—producing wool for garments to be sold for the benefit of an absentee owner.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
The frontline feels like a giant game of Pac-Man as Russians try to gobble up remote agrarian villages where hardscrabble families eke out a desperate living.
—Susan Mathison, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
Today, traces of its agrarian past can be found woven into daily life.
—Lea Dlugosch, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for agrarian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agrarian
agricultural
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Mati Carbon has successfully piloted a method that uses basalt to soak up atmospheric carbon, while potentially improving agricultural yields for billions of small scale farmers in the Global South.—
Eduardo Garcia,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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More than 200,000 tons of agricultural products are moved through Osceola's harbor every year, according to the Department of Commerce.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Agrarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agrarian. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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