tractable

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Hooked to an eight-speed dual-clutch automated manual transmission, the V12 is splendidly tractable at around-town speeds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

“Social media is the problem, and it’s really the algorithms” provides a very simple and tractable solution, which is that you fix the algorithms.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

One could use this method to obtain an optimal solution more quickly or, for especially complex problems, a better solution in a tractable amount of time.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

“Keeping the focus narrow is often important to making a project or scientific analysis tractable, and I don’t consider that ‘leaving out truth’ unless intended to mislead — certainly not my goal,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023

But the second problem, Herschel thought, was more tractable: Once life had been created, what process generated the observed diversity of the natural world?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee