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Recent Examples of monoculture
There are many unpleasant things to not miss about the monoculture of our increasingly distant past — but coalescing around a unified interest, and the feeling of togetherness arising from that act, is not one of them.
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
But in an era when monoculture is effectively dead, the need for diverse conversations has never been greater.
—Paula Conway, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
How to watch out-of-market NBA games National games are good for the monoculture and create main stages for the biggest stars.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Independent and industrial farms need to adapt in other ways too, converting to drought-resistant crops like sorghum, okra, and fava beans—while taking care to rotate those and a variety of other similar crops to avoid establishing agricultural monocultures that are susceptible to disease.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
But in an era when monoculture is effectively dead, the need for diverse conversations has never been greater.
—Paula Conway, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
How to watch out-of-market NBA games National games are good for the monoculture and create main stages for the biggest stars.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Independent and industrial farms need to adapt in other ways too, converting to drought-resistant crops like sorghum, okra, and fava beans—while taking care to rotate those and a variety of other similar crops to avoid establishing agricultural monocultures that are susceptible to disease.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monoculture
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IoT sensors in farming can monitor soil health, enabling precision agriculture and increasing crop yields.—
Sudhanshu Duggal,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Since opening in 2010, this museum has showcased the most defining aspects of Cajun life, from agriculture and mining to art and music.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2025
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Gillingham told Newsweek that many farmers rely on the USDA site for information on climate-smart farming practices and technical assistance for grants and loans designed to help farmers adapt to climate impacts such as drought, floods and changes in growing seasons.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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By contrast, insect farming has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 80% when compared to conventional livestock farming methods.—
Oyku Ilgar,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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In an effort to permit hemp cultivation while prohibiting production of a psychoactive plant, the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 defined hemp as all parts of the cannabis plant with less than 0.3 percent concentration of delta-9 THC by dry weight.—
Katharine Neill Harris,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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After a military coup in 1961, the new authoritarian leadership tied its economic program to the cultivation of a citizenry that was smaller and better educated.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Rather than being constantly on the move, traditional Maasai pastoralism has been more about strategic relocation.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes,
9 Sep. 2024
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For her, this discovery adds to the evidence that nomadic dairy pastoralism has sustained Mongolians for thousands of years.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
25 June 2024
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While there has been loads of research on animal husbandry, there has not been all that much investigation into animals’ conscious experiences outside their role as food products for humans.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Nov. 2024
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This ordinance embraces the presence of livestock and bees through animal husbandry.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Detroit Free Press,
27 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Hiring for culture fit is often a recipe for only working with people who look, act and think the same.—
Ruchi Kulhari,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Tempo organization has 12 employees, so Wright Rogers will be heavily involved in shaping the broader culture.—
Richard Deitsch,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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If implemented, said the California Water Policy Network, Trump’s order will devastate the largest estuary in the western continental U.S. to the benefit of a small number of agribusiness enterprises in the Central Valley.—
Ari Plachta,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
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According to Michigan Grown, a coalition of farmers and agribusinesses in the state, Michigan produces 68 million pounds of fresh cucumbers, totaling $15 million in sales in 2016.—
Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Monoculture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monoculture. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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