intractable

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Creating a more durable ceasefire will require some kind of agreement to at least keep talking about the two sides' contradictory lists of intractable issues.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

"We've made progress on this really big, seemingly intractable question: why is there something instead of nothing?" said Professor Messier.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Overlapping plots and jurisdictions trigger intractable land disputes.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

The deal is now at an intractable impasse, people involved in the talks say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

Many mathematical problems are so intractable, and experiments involving them so expensive, that this kind of probabilistic simulation is the only alternative to giving up on them.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos