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
Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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