tractable

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The question whether we’re building conscious machines is scientifically tractable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

“Social media is the problem, and it’s really the algorithms” provides a very simple and tractable solution, which is that you fix the algorithms.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

The authors suggest that deciding on a tractable size for prescribed burns, and predicting the characteristic results, could be aided by looking at the data on medium-sized fires in each vegetation type.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

“Keeping the focus narrow is often important to making a project or scientific analysis tractable, and I don’t consider that ‘leaving out truth’ unless intended to mislead — certainly not my goal,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023

“But Ba”—my voice cracked as I shifted to a tractable tone—“I haven’t even finished school yet.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu