agrarian
Example Sentences
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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
Sparta was an agrarian oligarchy whose muscle was its hoplite horde.
When historians search for parallels, they often point to the period before the Civil War, when an industrializing North and an agrarian South were divided over slavery.
From New York Times
Why does Iowa — an agrarian, elderly, overwhelmingly white state with relatively few residents — play such an outsize role in the presidential race?
From Los Angeles Times
Just as in Kentucky, the devastation ripped an important cash crop away from rural mountain communities, spurring on city-bound migration as people fled withering agrarian economies.
From Salon
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