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An evacuation order also was issued for residents of the Wilton area in semirural southeastern Sacramento County.
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Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2023
In the wake of apparent ruin, the family relocated from a town house in Harlem, with good furniture and servants, and a summer home on the beach, to the wilds of semirural Brooklyn.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
Limón is committed to giving agency to her semirural home.
—Edna Bonhomme, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
And yet those Americans, along with their neighbors in semirural suburban communities, play an outsize role in American electoral politics.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
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Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2023
In the wake of apparent ruin, the family relocated from a town house in Harlem, with good furniture and servants, and a summer home on the beach, to the wilds of semirural Brooklyn.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
Limón is committed to giving agency to her semirural home.
—Edna Bonhomme, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
And yet those Americans, along with their neighbors in semirural suburban communities, play an outsize role in American electoral politics.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
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Fitzgerald praised the company for adding inventory in high-demand markets, noting that as more companies delay plans for workers to return to offices, Airbnb should benefit from more people looking to book long-term stays, particularly in nonurban markets.Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
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After spending extended time outside of New York to avoid coronavirus, lockdowns and street protests, some buyers warmed to the idea of full-time nonurban life.New York Times, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
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The professions most uniquely vulnerable to climate stresses are agricultural, so rural areas emerge as nodes of instability.Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
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United Nations’ Satellite Center analysed data from satellite imagery of the Gaza Strip showing that due to the ongoing conflict, in September 76% of its agricultural land was impacted, with the potential loss of native species.Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Whenever factional rivalries, regional tensions between Eastern and Western Republicans, or conflict between industrial and agrarian sections, threatened party unity, the tariff cemented them together.Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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Younger China hands saw the CCP as agrarian reformers with little interest in world revolution.Timothy Nunan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2017
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“Semirural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semirural. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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