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suitable for living in
the frigid Arctic is not habitable for amphibians and reptiles—or for humans, either, for that matter
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Recent Examples of habitable
Based on the breakout indie horror game of the same name by David Szymanski, the story unfolds in a post-apocalyptic future following ‘The Quiet Rapture’, an event that causes stars and habitable planets to vanish.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet that circles its star every 355 days–and might be in its system’s habitable zone.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
The other units in the building are expected to remain habitable, fire officials said.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2026
Robert Pattinson plays a young down-on-his-luck kid who is hellbent on getting passage on a deep space vessel that is searching for a way to make a new planet habitable.
—Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet that circles its star every 355 days–and might be in its system’s habitable zone.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
The other units in the building are expected to remain habitable, fire officials said.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2026
Robert Pattinson plays a young down-on-his-luck kid who is hellbent on getting passage on a deep space vessel that is searching for a way to make a new planet habitable.
—Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for habitable
inhabitable
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Without the mass import of the wet stuff from parts north and east, much of Southern and Central California would be barely inhabitable.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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The effects of it — the societal collapse, the potential for a planet that becomes inhabitable, the domino effects of countries behaving badly and economies collapsing because of climate change — are very real issues that should be front and center of our conversations right now.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Habitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitable. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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