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

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

From BBC • Mar. 9, 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

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