tractable
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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
The question whether we’re building conscious machines is scientifically tractable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 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
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 • Dec. 5, 2023
"And Tommen is heir, should anything ill befall His Grace. Tommen, whose nature is so sweet, and notably . . . tractable."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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