inhospitable
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Baccalaureate exams - the French equivalent of A-levels - will continue during the heatwaves, despite some schools having to shut their doors due to inhospitable temperatures inside.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Appreciate the variety of ways a planet might be, and how many of them are, cold, dry, sterile, baked, toxic, inhospitable, and, as far as we can tell, completely devoid of life.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
What makes California so inhospitable to the upper-crust aspirants?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2025
And so, on a black Christmas night, with sleet volleying into their faces, columns of men struggled through some of the most inhospitable fields to ever yield up a victory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
But in New York, she needed to settle somewhere, and since the natives were unfriendly, and the country inhospitable, she took root in the language.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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