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Recent Examples of arable
Brazil has immense amounts of arable and potentially arable land, much of which, in today’s environmentally conscious world, will thankfully come from the conversion of sub-par pastureland rather than the destruction of rainforest.
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Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Successive generations of Colonists along the Eastern Seaboard had to compete with each other, and with Indigenous people, for resources, arable land and trade.
—G. Patrick O'Brien, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2025
Ukraine’s geography has given it highly arable land because of the river systems that bring alluvial deposits to its plains.
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Other northerly territories will likely undergo similar changes to those in Canada and Russia: Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. state of Alaska will all have a growing base of arable land in the coming decades.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025
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Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Successive generations of Colonists along the Eastern Seaboard had to compete with each other, and with Indigenous people, for resources, arable land and trade.
—G. Patrick O'Brien, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2025
Ukraine’s geography has given it highly arable land because of the river systems that bring alluvial deposits to its plains.
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Other northerly territories will likely undergo similar changes to those in Canada and Russia: Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. state of Alaska will all have a growing base of arable land in the coming decades.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arable
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Labor Shortages Push Innovation In countries like India, where the agricultural workforce is projected to drop to 26.8% by 2050, labor scarcity is forcing farmers to adopt technology.—
Josh Max,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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North Carolina agricultural officials found levels at 13.4 parts per billion in the samples, according to ABC News.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2025
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The short American school day and year are still basically rooted in the 19th century agrarian needs to have the kids available to work the farm in the summers.—
Jim Nowlan,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2025
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The community, perhaps because of its martial and agrarian origins, as well as a fierce sense of autonomy, plays an outsize role in trucking and transport in India and North America alike.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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“Arable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arable. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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