agrarian

Example Sentences

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The economy has evolved over the past 200 years from agrarian to industrial to service-based.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

This framework also helps explain why agrarian societies, which normally benefit from living spread out, sometimes gathered in cities despite the financial and social costs.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

Famed for its farming, cheeses and wine, this hilly, rural countryside feels cut off from modernity: an agrarian past perfectly preserved in an uncertain present.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

As a primarily agrarian country, India is particularly vulnerable to climate change.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025

I am too young to understand Pol Pot’s strategies for creating a classless pure agrarian society.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung