inhospitable

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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

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

Building on their findings, Kumawat and his colleagues now plan to cultivate these microorganisms in controlled incubators to learn more about how they obtain nutrients and persist in such inhospitable environments.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

Trying to shift the terms of debate, especially via a medium like cable news, is structurally inhospitable.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025

Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a whale inspired Herman Melville, survived eighty-three days at sea with two mates, interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel