agrarian

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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

The books depict events from the Civil War to the present, moving among an assortment of characters from the agrarian region’s closely intertwined families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The change South Korea has undergone is seismic: in a generation, it has gone from a war-torn agrarian society to a developed economy.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Rooted in agrarian traditions, the term originates from the Old French glener and the Latin glennare, meaning "to gather."

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

Since January he’d been working at home, trying to complete the final chapters of his dissertation on agrarian revolts in India.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri