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

Sparta was an agrarian oligarchy whose muscle was its hoplite horde.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Through these depictions, the show tries to tell the histories of the nomadic, tribal and agrarian communities for whom resilient survival was the leitmotif and cloth a way of narrating their marginalised experiences.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025

By the mid-19th century, gleaning had faded into memory, a relic of premodern agrarian life overtaken by the relentless march of progress.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

And the idea of remaining in a poor agrarian setting, in any capacity, was anathema to a child with such prodigious talents and cocky self-assurance.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson