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
The agrarian rebellion of the 1880s and 1890s was led by farmers at a time when literacy was far from universal and rural areas were incredibly isolated by today’s standards.
From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025
But when the lands that the agrarian reform had parceled out were returned to their former owners, they were reassured: things were returning to the good old days.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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