unlivable

adjective

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as in uninhabitable

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Recent Examples of unlivable For millions of American workers, the federal minimum wage is unlivable. — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026 Groups such as March and March cultivate a professional veneer to mask tactics that make life unlivable for migrants. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 10 July 2026 Now Russia’s air campaign is making the city unlivable. — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 27 June 2026 The Russian president, who has never acknowledged that Ukraine is a legitimate country, or that Zelensky is its legitimate president, could continue to bomb Ukrainian cities, hoping to destroy the electrical grid and make the country unlivable. — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for unlivable
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uninhabitable
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  • The Federal Emergency Management Agency deemed Chelsey Jarvis and Darrel McKay’s house uninhabitable and prohibited them from building even temporary housing on the land.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Fire officials said all four units of the condo complex were left uninhabitable due to the fire.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
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