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intractably

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This had to be; she was too intractably hard a case in the first season, which consisted of three feature-length investigations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

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

For Sewell, it was a reminder of how the battle of the earlier civil rights generation has swiftly, intractably become her own.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2022

Man acts as if he is not stronger than Mother Nature and Mother Nature behaves as an intractably stubborn creature, winning in the end.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2017

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