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

What makes California so inhospitable to the upper-crust aspirants?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 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

If you were familiar with the old museum, the enormous new one—which at times feels inhospitable to the intimacies art requires—may be more than disorienting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Spring was sizzling into summer, and even the deepest shadows of Daffodil Manor were inhospitable.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland