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Adjective
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Evergreen trees shade the pastoral grounds, planted to simulate the majesty of being in the Rocky Mountains, the owner’s other favorite place.—
Cortney Fries,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2025 -
Concordia’s dean revoked Marty’s pastoral posting in London, instead sending him to serve as assistant to the pastor at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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Travelers are required to declare all agricultural products to CBP officers and agriculture specialists or face fines of up to $10,000.—
Jennifer Hauser,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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House Bill 297 would create a year-round agricultural guest worker program — for which there is no current federal equivalent.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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According to public records, O’Neal had owned the bucolic sprawl since 1995.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
25 Feb. 2025
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Initially, the new home, in a bucolic suburb, felt like a dream.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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At the time, the island was still an agrarian place, where farmers tended rice paddies and raised water buffalos, but the possibility of war was manifest in the landscape.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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The Federalists dreamed of a commercial colossus rivaling the empires of Europe, whereas the Republicans imagined a simple, agrarian republic of yeoman farmers defended by citizen militias, with no need for a federal military academy.—
Ryan Shaw / Made by History,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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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Hybridity of Borders The late Sen. John McCain noted in 2014, Ukraine was the jewel of the Soviet crown because of its rich arable land, vast mineral wealth and massive manufacturing infrastructure.—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Pastoralist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastoralist. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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