intractable
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It’s one of those intractable “it depends” questions in personal finance, because it’s a percentage of your overall income, and that’s different for everyone.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026
Commentators draw parallels with other intractable conflicts, and count the taxpayer money they say has spiraled down the drain.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2026
An even bigger burden on budgets is the seemingly intractable increase in interest expense from the past borrowing binge.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Some of it’s the intractable nature of entitlement expansions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 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
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