How to Use intractable in a Sentence

intractable

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• For decades, the debate around health care has been intractable.
  — James Breiding, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
• But in some places, the worker shortfalls could prove more intractable.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 29 June 2021
• There have been periods in the past where air rage seemed an intractable problem, but later subsided.
  — David Koenig, Star Tribune, 22 June 2021
• Court hearings over Zoom have reduced no-show rates, an intractable problem in legal administration for decades.
  — Cyd Harrell, Wired, 1 July 2021
• In the intractable fight against America's online scam epidemic, there is one unlikely place where efforts to fight back appear to be making an impact.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
• In other words, according to absent-father statistics, father absence is to blame for many of our most intractable social ills affecting children.
  — Clare Morell, National Review, 20 June 2021
• The moves reflect the increasingly intractable nature of political talk on TV.
  — Stephen Battaglio Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• But this week, Joe Biden is set to become the president who imposes closure on the US' role in the bloody, intractable conflict.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 30 June 2021
• Such financial inefficiency might present an opportunity if the reasons weren’t so intractable.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 21 June 2021
• The underperformance of white working class students over decades has been one of the education system’s biggest - and seemingly most intractable - failures.
  — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• The heart and its foolish, intractable longings are the show’s first big theme.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• What remained was the most intractable of all the legacies of the war: Agent Orange.
  — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• Now, at the start of the third year of AI college, the problem seems as intractable as ever.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2024
• There are many intractable problems in the world today, but this is not one of them.
  — Terri Gerstein, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
• These are intractable, meaty problems, the kinds avant-garde artists used to want to explore.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
• But the issue is one of the most intractable subjects in Washington, so the odds of a near-term deal look slim.
  — Mackenzie Hawkins, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Even cities with the most intractable rents are seeing some cooling.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• Ben’s stories about Howard, that enthralled us to the point of intractable fandom.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
• The name was meant to situate the group at the intersection of C.L.S. and the intractable questions of race.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• As all signs pointed to an intractable stalemate, news began to break of a deal.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
• For decades, China stayed well away from the intractable conflicts of the Middle East, but that has changed in recent years.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• The good news is that perfectionism is not an intractable trait.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Jan. 2023
• The crisis shows just how intractable even the most preventable forms of gun violence can be.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 3 July 2024
• But perhaps the most intractable long-term challenge to the United States is China.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
• Radiofrequency ablation of the nerves in the back has been used since the 1970s in people with intractable back pain.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2022
• Pancreatic cancer is one of the most intractable forms of the disease.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
• South Africa brought the case, which goes to the core of one of the world’s most intractable conflicts, and had asked the court to order Israel to halt its operation.
  — Mike Corder, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• The strait, which separates Taiwan from mainland China, is the site of one of the world’s more intractable disputes.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• Still, the drug could be a useful new tool in the fight against an intractable, progressive condition.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
• The bus driver shortage that accelerated during the pandemic seems to have become an intractable problem for schools.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024