as in inhabitable
suitable for living in
the frigid Arctic is not habitable for amphibians and reptiles—or for humans, either, for that matter
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Recent Examples of habitable
Some even hope to use JWST to characterize a handful of potentially habitable alien worlds.
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Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Still, with a total that huge, even a small fraction can yield a lot of habitable planets.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2025
The aim is to answer the question that has long perplexed scientists: was Mars once habitable?
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
Related Stories: — Super-Earth orbits in and out of its star's habitable zone.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Still, with a total that huge, even a small fraction can yield a lot of habitable planets.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2025
The aim is to answer the question that has long perplexed scientists: was Mars once habitable?
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
Related Stories: — Super-Earth orbits in and out of its star's habitable zone.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for habitable
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“Habitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitable. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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