intractable
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It is a sign of how intractable China’s economic difficulties are—and the structural challenges leader Xi Jinping faces in addressing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Fortunately, Brown and Obama were allied leaders and not deep rivals looking to resolve seemingly intractable differences.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Scientists used a new error correction strategy to encode 70 logical qubits and tackle a problem considered classically intractable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The intractable source of the problem, Bostwick said, is that the desert is for sale and real estate operations, some out-of-state, buy and then resell online.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Bono had, through his exertions—the boat being well nigh intractable, now swamped—snapped off the rowlock and a stave of the gunwale, wet with rot.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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