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What do you think is the most intractable issue of our era?intractable = difficult
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intractable pain
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Maybe your work would improve if your general attitude were more tractable. (source)tractable = easily managed
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Nathaniel, for all his intractable habits, has nothing on me when it comes to... (source)intractable = difficult
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The question of race was like the power of the moon in my house..., but it was a silent power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely ignorable. (source)
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By dark he'd ridden eleven of the sixteen horses. Not all of them so tractable. (source)tractable = easy to manage or control
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...as if he were trying to explain it to an intractable and unpredictable child: (source)intractable = difficult to manage or control
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This is to say that just as Wild Country becomes tractable, and Badlands country slowly gives way to habitable Fringes country, so, it would seem, are the Blacklands contracting within the Badlands. (source)tractable = easily managed
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HELEN'S hand waits, intractably waits.† (source)
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I fly to Zurich and Lisbon to exchange ideas and make proposals and it is the kind of desperate crisis, the intractability of waste, that doesn't really seem to be taking place except in the conference reports and the newspapers.† (source)
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Mrs Durbeyfield was only too delighted at this tractability.† (source)tractability = the trait of being easily managed
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On the one hand the most settled dynasties shaken or overthrown—the people everywhere escaping by violence from the sway of their laws—abolishing or limiting the authority of their rulers or their princes—the nations, which are not in open revolution, restless at least, and excited—all of them animated by the same spirit of revolt: and on the other hand, at this very period of anarchy, and amongst these untractable nations, the incessant increase of the prerogative of the supreme government, becoming more centralized, more adventurous, more absolute, more extensive—the people perpetually falling under the control of the public administration—led insensibly to surrender to it some further por† (source)untractable = not easily managedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untractable means not and reverses the meaning of tractable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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When the family found a young man in the next village to be her husband, she had stood tractably beside the best rooster, his proxy, and promised before they met that she would be his forever.† (source)tractably = in a manner that is easily managed
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...which generally makes for a criminal and intractable nature. (source)intractable = difficult to manage or control
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Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, (source)tractable = easy to manage or control
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Mihailov again tried to say that that was how he understood Pilate, but his lips quivered intractably, and he could not pronounce the words.† (source)
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