intractable

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“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

Overlapping plots and jurisdictions trigger intractable land disputes.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Miller said he and his wife, Staci, while mapping out their philanthropic work, chose to focus on intractable problems at the local, state, national and global level.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

He lived by a single maxim: “Learn your horse. Each one is an individual, and once you penetrate his mind and heart, you can often work wonders with an otherwise intractable beast.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand