intractably

Example Sentences

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Researchers must include enough details to accurately describe the system, but not so much that they render it intractably complex.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 6, 2023

A deal which at times looked intractably, impossibly broken, now appears to have finally been concluded.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2022

For Sewell, it was a reminder of how the battle of the earlier civil rights generation has swiftly, intractably become her own.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2022

She is stubborn, intractably so, and once she sets her mind on doing something, it is nearly impossible to dissuade her.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2020

He had fallen madly and intractably in love with horse racing from the moment he saw his first race as a child, and knew where he wanted his money to go.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand