How to Use intractable in a Sentence

intractable

adjective

• 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
• For decades, the debate around health care has been intractable.
  — James Breiding, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
• 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
• But in some places, the worker shortfalls could prove more intractable.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 29 June 2021
• 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
• Needless to say, the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict was not the top of the list.
  — Aaron David Miller and Daniel Kurtzer, CNN, 12 May 2021
• 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
• There's also the intractable issue of where and how to store the deadly radioactive waste.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• 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
• How to start a business in a refugee camp This approach is now being applied to one of the world’s most intractable problems: the refugee crisis.
  — Dianne Calvi, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• But then the problem — the intractable, signature problem of our moment — is that for many people, the same was true of Carone.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• What Democrats are supposed to do about the GOP’s intractable position is anyone’s guess.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 July 2022
• Contrary to many reports, the most intractable of these is not over access to British fishing waters.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
• On infrastructure, there seems to be an intractable problem of how to pay for all of this spending.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2021
• The current impasse has raised the possibility that an intractable dispute between the states could lead to a fight in the courts.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
• The leaders are asked familiar questions: Has the role of president become too expansive and intractable?
  — David Rosowsky, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025