intractable
Example Sentences
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Given that AI uses a tremendous amount of energy and water, public servants should be applying it towards solving society’s most intractable problems, not creating racist tropes or belittling people for exercising their democratic rights.
From Salon
“This is a compassionate report from the front lines of one of America’s most intractable social problems,” says Publisher’s Weekly.
From Los Angeles Times
Inflation is especially intractable in services industries, where worker shortages are putting upward pressure on wages and prices.
From Seattle Times
The shared executive authority set up in the 1998 accord has also seen repeated suspensions because of intractable disputes between the two sides and, most recently, the fallout from Brexit.
From New York Times
The question for Stanford and other institutions is whether the memo can ease tensions in this fraught and seemingly intractable political climate.
From New York Times
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