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But in recent weeks, da Silva has sought allies in the powerful ruralist bloc in Brazil’s Congress.

From Washington Times • Aug. 7, 2022

In Congress, a large coalition known as the ruralist bloc has championed scores of measures to ease access to minerals and potential farmland in protected areas.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2018

I've got the very thing you want," said the stableman to a ruralist in search of a horse; "a thorough-going road horse.

From Good Stories from the Ladies' Home Journal by Various

He was a type of the southern ruralist, broad, flapping straw hat, home-woven shirt, cottonade trousers, one suspender.

From Old Ebenezer by Read, Opie Percival

Ah! welcome, through autumnal mist, For each returning ruralist, Waif metropolitan, to list Thy tinkle unto.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir