intractable

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Homelessness is an intractable problem, but its Venn overlap with public parks is on a different plane, because it asks, again, who are parks for?

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

There's also the very visible, and seemingly intractable, problem of homelessness, which inflicts misery on the thousands who suffer it and scars the streets of great cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Despite being banned, a wealth of research suggests they can treat intractable mental health problems, which has attracted significant investment from the biotech industry.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

"It's not about being faster. It's about being so dramatically faster that you change what is feasible. We will be able to solve problems that are absolutely intractable with classical computers," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.

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