intractable

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"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

Locally, he said, homelessness was the issue they identified as the most intractable.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

The deal is now at an intractable impasse, people involved in the talks say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 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