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inhospitable

adjective as in unfriendly

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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.

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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.

Trying to shift the terms of debate, especially via a medium like cable news, is structurally inhospitable.

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He stepped on set physically depleted but in the ideal headspace to embody the creature as it navigates an inhospitable reality.

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"I think the fact anyone was able to survive for all those days with very little food in such an inhospitable place with some pretty adverse weather conditions is pretty amazing," he added.

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