inhospitable

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With her inquisitive eyes and lush, white tail, which she wraps around herself like a scarf, Rana is a friendly guide to an inhospitable world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Appreciate the variety of ways a planet might be, and how many of them are, cold, dry, sterile, baked, toxic, inhospitable, and, as far as we can tell, completely devoid of life.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

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.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a whale inspired Herman Melville, survived eighty-three days at sea with two mates, interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel