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also liveable
as in inhabitable
suitable for living in
after we added some furniture and painted the walls, the apartment was livable
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Recent Examples of livable
Now the city is hiring a consulting firm to work with city staffers over the next two years to create a specific plan — the guidelines for builders that would help develop the largely industrial and commercial airport area as a unique and livable location in Newport Beach.
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Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
Multiple departments in the City of Memphis have hundreds of employees who are paid less than what an MIT calculation considers a livable wage for Memphis.
—Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 25 Feb. 2026
The Alpini, experts in army operations, within days turned the frigid site into a livable headquarters.
—New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Libraries are a model for the kind of publicly minded, livable communities that electeds like Mayor Mamdani so eloquently advocate for.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
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Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
Multiple departments in the City of Memphis have hundreds of employees who are paid less than what an MIT calculation considers a livable wage for Memphis.
—Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 25 Feb. 2026
The Alpini, experts in army operations, within days turned the frigid site into a livable headquarters.
—New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Libraries are a model for the kind of publicly minded, livable communities that electeds like Mayor Mamdani so eloquently advocate for.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for livable
Adjective
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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
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During summer, this broad swath of the Mojave Desert is borderline inhabitable.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The Moon uplifts vulnerable Chiron, spotlighting your comfortable 4th house and your profound 8th house.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
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Harris, the Chatsworth head coach, said Arenas is still just getting comfortable.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The mission’s detailed investigation of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2026
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If the fraction of potentially habitable planets that wind up producing technologically advanced aliens is just 1%, instead, the average civilization lifetime could then be raised to 500,000 years and still be consistent with our non-detection of the presence of intelligent aliens.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Livable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livable. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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