inhabitable

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Recent Examples of inhabitable To hope is to give yourself to the future—and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable. Literary Hub, 6 May 2026 The home is no longer inhabitable, and the Steaves plan to live with family in the area. Leondra Head, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026 But in the present day, with the glade abandoned, the only hope for construction to stop is for Mabel to find a beaver — a keystone species — that can once again make the area inhabitable. Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2026 During summer, this broad swath of the Mojave Desert is borderline inhabitable. Graham Averill, Outside, 23 Feb. 2026 Back then, the Red Planet was regarded as marginally inhabitable. New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2026 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 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 Or has our world become a little bit too inhabitable? Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhabitable
Adjective
  • Many of these planets are within the habitable zone of their stars.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Its five-year mission is to study dark matter and hunt for habitable worlds outside our solar system.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • For homeowners watching bills climb during another record-hot summer, a cheap removable layer of heat control window film might be enough to make your worst rooms livable and give the AC a break.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2026
  • And yet a truly livable city depends on much more than thriving business.
    Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • It may be overlooked, considering how comfortable Suzuki appears when carrying out Unai Emery’s ploy of his backline baiting an opponent’s press, but at Parma, he was required to kick mostly long.
    Aston Villa, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Drew Lock has clearly become more comfortable as a passer this quarter, but his 14-yard run also hurt New England by putting Seattle only three yards from the goal line.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The facility’s employees did not demonstrate acceptable food safety knowledge on proper warewashing, equipment use and proper food storage.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The 2026 Legislature passed HB 991, an elections bill requiring strict proof of citizenship to vote and eliminating some acceptable forms of photo ID.
    José Javier Rodríguez, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026

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“Inhabitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhabitable. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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