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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Most of the territory’s population has been displaced, and with vast swaths of Gaza’s urban landscape leveled in the fighting, many areas are uninhabitable.
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Tia Goldenberg and Wafaa Shurafa, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Risky business Dutch climate activist group Follow This, which has for years been pushing various oil giants to do more to help keep the climate from becoming uninhabitable by human life, expressed its disappointment in the change of heart.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
The problem is that 70 percent of all the buildings in the north have either been destroyed or made uninhabitable.
—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
Residents of the Marshall Islands have already felt the cost of living with radioactive waste: Several atolls remain uninhabitable, and radiation has resulted in cancer and other negative health consequences for Marshallese, as well as enormous disturbances to traditional food-gathering practices.
—Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
The fire marshal’s office said the blast on Feb. 16 left three additional homes uninhabitable, damaged three others and resulted in an initial estimate of about $2.5 million worth of losses.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
Parts of it may be uninhabitable for years, if not decades.
—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
Tia Goldenberg and Wafaa Shurafa, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Risky business Dutch climate activist group Follow This, which has for years been pushing various oil giants to do more to help keep the climate from becoming uninhabitable by human life, expressed its disappointment in the change of heart.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
The problem is that 70 percent of all the buildings in the north have either been destroyed or made uninhabitable.
—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
Residents of the Marshall Islands have already felt the cost of living with radioactive waste: Several atolls remain uninhabitable, and radiation has resulted in cancer and other negative health consequences for Marshallese, as well as enormous disturbances to traditional food-gathering practices.
—Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
The fire marshal’s office said the blast on Feb. 16 left three additional homes uninhabitable, damaged three others and resulted in an initial estimate of about $2.5 million worth of losses.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
Parts of it may be uninhabitable for years, if not decades.
—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
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