intractable

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Overlapping plots and jurisdictions trigger intractable land disputes.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

"Their paper should enable a broad spectrum of studies that previously were intractable."

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

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 • Nov. 29, 2025

Is his Golden State address an intractable obstacle or not?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

Combine the long-range and short-range perspectives and the result becomes the central paradox of the revolutionary era, which was also the apparently intractable dilemma facing the revolutionary generation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis