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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
It was recently ranked among the five least livable cities in the world, with its 17 million residents enduring overlapping crises of toxic air, frequent flooding and poor waste disposal.
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Zia Ur-Rehman Asim Hafeez, New York Times, 12 July 2025
After three years atop the mountain of habitability, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual ranking of the world’s most livable cities (Vienna won the top spot in 2022, 2023, and 2024, as well as in 2018 and 2019), the Austrian capital has been dethroned by Copenhagen.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 26 June 2025
Now, players are advocating for a livable wage and equity that reflects the league’s growth.
—Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Show us that Baltimore is serious about making every block livable — not just the ones with a spotlight on them.
—Victor Jimenez, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2025
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Zia Ur-Rehman Asim Hafeez, New York Times, 12 July 2025
After three years atop the mountain of habitability, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual ranking of the world’s most livable cities (Vienna won the top spot in 2022, 2023, and 2024, as well as in 2018 and 2019), the Austrian capital has been dethroned by Copenhagen.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 26 June 2025
Now, players are advocating for a livable wage and equity that reflects the league’s growth.
—Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Show us that Baltimore is serious about making every block livable — not just the ones with a spotlight on them.
—Victor Jimenez, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for livable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for livable
comfortable
Adjective
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He’s never sounded more confident or comfortable, a thrilling promise of what’s to come from him in the future.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
15 Aug. 2025
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While a computer science degree can help, what matters most is being comfortable with large language models, natural language processing, and basic programming.—
Sho Dewan,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Livable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livable. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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