intractable
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She comes to the panel’s table highly prepared with data-based talking points, forcing her often intractable co-hosts to engage and listen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
But it sounds like there was one juror whose position is intractable, that they have this fixed view that isn’t changing, no matter how much more deliberations continue.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 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 mounting U.S. debt is an intractable problem.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
She said that she was unteachable, intractable, hopelessly stupid.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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