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
  • In the few homes the FCC paid Adak Eagle to connect that are habitable, the occupants have abandoned Adak Eagle.
    Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 20 July 2026
  • Over that time, O’Mara saw the value of the home rise from $21,300 and barely habitable when it was purchased to a recent offer by a would-be buyer of $350,000, following the death of his wife, Patricia, in February.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
Adjective
  • That forgiving quality is part of why the look feels livable rather than precious.
    Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
  • For the second year in a row, Copenhagen was named the world’s most livable city, with Vienna and Melbourne rounding out the top three.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Adjective
  • Miessial Smocked Midi Dress with Pockets From brunch with your friends to date night out, this linen midi dress will keep you cool, comfortable, and stylish all day long.
    Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
  • The boot camp fosters an environment where students feel comfortable failing, said Saint Juste, 20, who will attend Kennesaw State University in the fall.
    Francesca Pinney, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Adjective
  • There’s an acceptable, understood feeling-things-out period that takes place in the first week of training camp.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • The concern about respectability politics is legitimate Black people have historically been expected to alter themselves to become acceptable to institutions whose standards were rarely built with them in mind.
    Tee Wilson, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

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“Inhabitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhabitable. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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