intractable
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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
The seemingly intractable issue over Hezbollah's weapons has long divided Lebanon, but Aoun appeared to believe he could solve it.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
“Fusion lets us make our own suns. It makes really hard, intractable problems suddenly a little more solvable.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
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
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