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An example use of environment in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… lives in an environment where there's …”
Environment is the natural environment in which a particular species or group of organisms live.
the word environment occurs in english on average 58.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that environment can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) communication, information, and media;
3) education, science, and technology;