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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
Not only were three of the planets in the star’s habitable zone, all seven would eventually be within reach of JWST.
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Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Earth's forests play a critical role in keeping our planet habitable.
—Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2025
Making Mars as habitable as Antarctica during the polar night would be the greatest technological undertaking humanity has ever taken by many orders of magnitude, in order to create a place that nobody would want to live, and where the gravity would still be too low.
—ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
Any closer to a star than its habitable zone band, and a planet's liquid water evaporates.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Earth's forests play a critical role in keeping our planet habitable.
—Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2025
Making Mars as habitable as Antarctica during the polar night would be the greatest technological undertaking humanity has ever taken by many orders of magnitude, in order to create a place that nobody would want to live, and where the gravity would still be too low.
—ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
Any closer to a star than its habitable zone band, and a planet's liquid water evaporates.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for habitable
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“Habitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitable. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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