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tractable

[trak-tuh-buhl] / ˈtræk tə bəl /


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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