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

While this makes the problem mathematically tractable, it raises the obvious question -- is it true?

From Science Daily • May 8, 2024

“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

Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell