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tractable

[trak-tuh-buhl] / ˈtræk tə bəl /


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That Maverick is more alert, more tractable, more responsive and way more efficient, posting up to 38 mpg, combined, depending on trim and choice of tires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

“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

The authors suggest that deciding on a tractable size for prescribed burns, and predicting the characteristic results, could be aided by looking at the data on medium-sized fires in each vegetation type.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023

But the second problem, Herschel thought, was more tractable: Once life had been created, what process generated the observed diversity of the natural world?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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