agrarian
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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
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
We were agrarian, unsophisticated, industrious people, Jews and Christians alike, whose lives revolved around family, our religious calendars, and the seasons of sowing and reaping.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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