Etymology
Origin of rurality
Example Sentences
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They also adjusted for covariates that included pesticide density, social vulnerability, income level, rurality, cardiovascular disease hospitalization rates and the prevalence of chronic kidney disease.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024
So often the Midwest functions as shorthand in fiction, a quick way to represent backwardness or innocence, ignorance or rurality.
From Salon • Aug. 25, 2022
That lake was Lough Gill, in County Sligo, and it promised everything I needed: rurality, quiet, time.
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022
It is true, and it speaks to our rurality and the quality of life that we enjoy.
From Washington Times • Jul. 24, 2020
He oscillated between the dinginess and dulness of the capital as he knew it, and the well-accustomed rurality of his home.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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