intractable

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Mr. Macmillan doesn’t lose sight of the central truths about clinical depression: that the causes are often inscrutable, its persistence can be intractable, and temporary relief often leads only to recurrence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

"We've made progress on this really big, seemingly intractable question: why is there something instead of nothing?" said Professor Messier.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Overlapping plots and jurisdictions trigger intractable land disputes.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

MacArthur Park has come to symbolize some of Los Angeles’ most intractable issues.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

Since Toynbee’s attempt, worldwide syntheses of historical causation have fallen into disfavor among most historians, as posing an apparently intractable problem.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond