tractable
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Hooked to an eight-speed dual-clutch automated manual transmission, the V12 is splendidly tractable at around-town speeds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
“Social media is the problem, and it’s really the algorithms” provides a very simple and tractable solution, which is that you fix the algorithms.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024
While this makes the problem mathematically tractable, it raises the obvious question -- is it true?
From Science Daily • May 8, 2024
“Keeping the focus narrow is often important to making a project or scientific analysis tractable, and I don’t consider that ‘leaving out truth’ unless intended to mislead — certainly not my goal,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023
"Lysa is more tractable than Catelyn, true . . . but also more fearful, and I understand she hates you."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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