uninhabitable
adjective
un·in·hab·it·able
ˌən-in-ˈha-bə-tə-bəl 
: unfit for habitation : not inhabitable
an uninhabitable wilderness
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Parts of it may be uninhabitable for years, if not decades.
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Emile Ducke Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Aliens are looking to invade Earth because their planet has become unstable and uninhabitable due to multiple eclipses.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Despite active civil litigation and an open criminal investigation into the uninhabitable Ash Street building, Mayor Todd Gloria and council members had agreed to pay seller Cisterra Development and lender CGA Capital 100 cents on the dollar.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
Columbus saw another mass displacement of over a thousand tenants, many of them Haitian migrants, from a sprawling complex that had become increasingly uninhabitable.
—Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Reaching its tipping point could also make parts of the Amazon uninhabitable due to unbearable heat and a lack of resources for indigenous peoples and local communities, the study shows.
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
The January eruption was the second in as many months, and scientists are confident that the town will be imperiled by many more short but intense outbursts of lava emerging from any number of fissures for years to come—making Grindavík essentially uninhabitable.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
Their complaints led city officials to declare the 147 units uninhabitable and to offer relocation assistance to residents.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2024
The number of Gazans whose homes are uninhabitable comes from a February 2024 World Bank report, which estimates that 1.2 million people in Gaza are facing homelessness due to damaged and destroyed residential buildings.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
Emile Ducke Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Aliens are looking to invade Earth because their planet has become unstable and uninhabitable due to multiple eclipses.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Despite active civil litigation and an open criminal investigation into the uninhabitable Ash Street building, Mayor Todd Gloria and council members had agreed to pay seller Cisterra Development and lender CGA Capital 100 cents on the dollar.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
Columbus saw another mass displacement of over a thousand tenants, many of them Haitian migrants, from a sprawling complex that had become increasingly uninhabitable.
—Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Reaching its tipping point could also make parts of the Amazon uninhabitable due to unbearable heat and a lack of resources for indigenous peoples and local communities, the study shows.
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
The January eruption was the second in as many months, and scientists are confident that the town will be imperiled by many more short but intense outbursts of lava emerging from any number of fissures for years to come—making Grindavík essentially uninhabitable.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
Their complaints led city officials to declare the 147 units uninhabitable and to offer relocation assistance to residents.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2024
The number of Gazans whose homes are uninhabitable comes from a February 2024 World Bank report, which estimates that 1.2 million people in Gaza are facing homelessness due to damaged and destroyed residential buildings.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
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