Definition of habitablenext

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Recent Examples of habitable Its five-year mission is to study dark matter and hunt for habitable worlds outside our solar system. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026 Reading the rocks NASA created Curiosity to search for evidence of ancient habitable environments, such as those with liquid water and the chemicals, nutrients and energy sources required for life. — Ashwin R. Vasavada, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026 Others just want someone to tell them their house can be habitable again. — Julimar Valentina Rivas Perez, NBC news, 24 July 2026 The telescope will use gravitational microlensing to detect planets in and beyond the habitable zones of their star systems. — Elijah Tan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for habitable
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inhabitable
Adjective
  • My entire theory of writing is indebted to looking at floor plans with my mother as a child—which gave me the sense of language as something spatial and inhabitable.
    — Nandini Krishnan, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
  • To hope is to give yourself to the future—and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026

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“Habitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitable. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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