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Nowhere is the dream of pastoral harmony regained through scientific knowledge more beautifully realized than in Boucher’s nocturne of a cherub, telescope in hand, contemplating the moon.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025 -
The album version shifts from what could at first be mistaken for a pastoral, pleasant crooner about country life into a four-alarm fire, crackling with impatient riffs by the first refrain, when horns pile insistently on top of each other only to strip back, again, to an orchestral piano hymn.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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This powerful incentive structure catalyzed the growth of several major U.S. industries, including California’s agricultural and tech sectors, and Texas’s cattle and energy infrastructure.—
Joel Shulman,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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In that same vein, if countries retaliate with their own tariffs — as France and Canada are already vowing to do — American cars and agricultural products will be shut out of foreign markets.—
Saul Mangel,
Oc Register,
7 Apr. 2025
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The 37-year-old’s battered remains were found the next day along the bucolic Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, 30 miles north of Baltimore.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Image The Colony by Annika Norlin In a bucolic forest in Sweden, the small band of misfits at the heart of Norlin’s novel forms a mysterious commune that may be a utopia or may be a nightmare, depending on your perspective.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The descendants of those celebrations, listed below in chronological order for the year, honor agrarian histories and promote unique regional foods, with pop concerts, giant anthropomorphic vegetables, and eating contests.—
Naomi Tomky,
AFAR Media,
3 Apr. 2025
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At the turn of the 20th century, America experienced social disruption, the result of a shift from a rural agrarian economy to an urban industrial economy.—
Dennis M. Powell,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Mar. 2025
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Boosting agriculture Angola imports over half of its food and currently only 10% of arable land is cultivated.—
Tom Page,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2025
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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.—
Sal Gilbertie,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Pastoralist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastoralist. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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