Example Sentences

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“But what you learn from this history is how intractably linked our region’s growth was with the railroad.”

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023

Researchers must include enough details to accurately describe the system, but not so much that they render it intractably complex.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 6, 2023

It can’t be easy to come up with fresh headlines about sheet-pan dinners day in and day out, but food is intractably non-virtual.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2018

Branko Milanovic points to the success of previous politicians in turning round seemingly intractably weak economies.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2016

Just when matters seemed most intractably confused, along came another extraordinary figure with a novel approach.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson