untillable

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Recent Examples of untillable The team meticulously marks, measures, and photographs each crater and depression, all the while brushing off questions from villagers befuddled by the interest in this barren, untillable plot of land. Kathleen McLaughlin, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untillable
Adjective
  • Their bodies were found lifeless with plastic bags over their heads and evidence that their hands had been zip-tied near their father's truck.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 1 July 2025
  • What was once a quiet, natural landscape is now a stark, lifeless installation of metal and wire.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The film centers on Dr. Jasmine Marks, who leads a search and rescue mission into The Zone — a section of rainforest along the equator with a climate inhospitable to intelligent life.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 30 June 2025
  • But modern-day Earth’s atmosphere has proved inhospitable to the creatures, with many dying out or migrating to a tropical band around the equator that resembles their native Mesozoic Era climate.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The reversal is notable because this traditionally bleak indicator had been trending more positively under Trump's second term—until now.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • Restaurants were closed, staff were furloughed, and the broad outlook on the hospitality industry’s future was, in a word, bleak.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • The Blue Jays had a lead and needed efficient innings to spare an exhausted bullpen.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 8 July 2025
  • This feature, essentially a failsafe, Young explained, allows CAR cells to take a break, which can be useful in terms of keeping cytokine production from getting out of control and from becoming exhausted from working too long without time to rejuvenate.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • But August is perhaps a poor month in which to rally the staff.
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • For certain situations, particularly if someone is in poor health, experts generally say claiming early makes sense.
    Lorie Konish, CNBC, 11 July 2025

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“Untillable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untillable. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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