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Recent Examples of inhospitable She is seen here leading her team on a mission into the darkness of a volcanic lava tube in Hawaii in search of information about how life can exist in such an inhospitable place — and how that might relate to living in space. Diane Cole, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025 Pattinson is Mickey Barnes, an expendable worker who’s sent to an inhospitable planet far out in space to colonize it. Jordan Moreau, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025 But as the planet warms, retreating icecaps and thinning sea ice will make Greenland important for other reasons, as its vast tracts of once inhospitable land become newly alluring to outsiders. Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025 The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as a proxy for Mars by researchers. Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhospitable

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“Inhospitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhospitable. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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