uninhabitable

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Recent Examples of uninhabitable The four apartments were found to be uninhabitable and the residents were displaced. Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025 Some projections suggest nations like the Maldives or Marshall Islands could become largely uninhabitable within decades. Lauren Gifford, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025 The city is subsiding by more than 3 millimetres a year, and even in the United Nations’ best-case climate scenario, a third of the metropolis could be underwater or uninhabitable by 2050. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025 One-third of the city will be uninhabitable by 2050, AFP reported, citing forecasts from the United Nations. Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for uninhabitable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninhabitable
unlivable
Adjective
  • This is a level not seen on this planet since there were crocodiles and palm trees in the Arctic Circle 50 million years ago—when there was no ice on Antarctica, and the tropics would have been totally unlivable for mammals like ourselves.
    Peter Brannen August 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The floodwaters made Dillion’s home unlivable, caving in parts of the ceiling.
    Nidhi Sharma, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Uninhabitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninhabitable. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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