Sample Sentences forintractable (editor-reviewed)
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What do you think is the most intractable issue of our era?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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Maybe your work would improve if your general attitude were more tractable. (source)tractable = easily managed
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Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, (source)tractable = easy to manage or control
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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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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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...which generally makes for a criminal and intractable nature. (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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I need not have been so surprised as I was at his tractability.† (source)
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For myself, I am so far from urging as a reproach to the principle of equality that it renders men untractable, that this very circumstance principally calls forth my approbation.† (source)standard 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)
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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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for he held a tractable, well-broken horse as unworthy of a lad of spirit. (source)tractable = easily managed
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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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