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noun

environment

CEFR B2

the totality of surrounding conditions

In a sentence

Six example sentences with environment, each labelled with its topic.

  • Tardigrades survive an environment that would finish almost anything else, from boiling springs to the vacuum outside a spacecraft.

    Science

  • The atrium creates a warm, humid environment in January, which is exactly what the palm collection needs to flower.

    Architecture

  • Moving her desk to the quiet corner gave her an environment where two hours of real work became possible.

    Psychology

  • The bug only appeared in the test environment, where a smaller database made the query return rows in a different order.

    Technology

  • In a low-rate environment savers earned almost nothing, so money flowed into housing and shares instead.

    Economics

  • The level designer built an environment where every ledge, torch and echo quietly tells the player which way to go.

    Gaming

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