tractable
Example Sentences
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“But Ba”—my voice cracked as I shifted to a tractable tone—“I haven’t even finished school yet.”
From Literature
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“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
While this makes the problem mathematically tractable, it raises the obvious question -- is it true?
From Science Daily
Hardiman writes that Joyce was a “tractable and ingenious” craftsman who quickly became adept in soldering, casting, inlaying and many other skills required of a medieval jeweler.
From National Geographic
One could use this method to obtain an optimal solution more quickly or, for especially complex problems, a better solution in a tractable amount of time.
From Science Daily
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