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
A warming climate has already expanded their season and allowed them to move into formerly inhospitable regions.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 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
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
So he found an olive tree and sat down on the inhospitable ground at its foot.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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