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tractable

[trak-tuh-buhl] / ˈtræk tə bəl /


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Instead, the team broke down their unanswerable question—will the breeding program work—into four smaller, more tractable assumptions:

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

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

“But Ba”—my voice cracked as I shifted to a tractable tone—“I haven’t even finished school yet.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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