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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• What Democrats are supposed to do about the GOP’s intractable position is anyone’s guess.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 July 2022
• The task of shrinking our societal footprint is the most urgent problem of our era — and perhaps the most intractable.
  — Noah Gallagher Shannon, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• Concrete is also one of the more intractable climate problems.
  — Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
• But observers warn the abrupt end to the seemingly intractable conflict may have also sown the seeds of future conflicts.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• What’s to be done with such beautiful work, wedded to such intractable problems?
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• How Johnson governs a city with respect to its most intractable issues will remain to be seen.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• The issue of Israel and Palestine is the most intractable geopolitical problem of the modern age.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• No issue seemed more intractable in the United States than gun violence.
  — Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• The entirety of the movie is, in effect, a counter-story—i.e., the complex and intractable truth, which had little place in French public life or in the sense of French identity.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022
• The gender pay gap is one of the most intractable examples of that lack of parity, and still exists just about everywhere.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
• The Russian gains and the seeming intractable nature of the conflict have given U.S. onlookers cause for concern.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• An approach that combines diplomacy with deterrence is the least bad way for the United States to deal with this intractable problem in the near term.
  — Alexandra Stark, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
• The issue of poor medication adherence is a common and intractable one throughout the field of medicine.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
• This crisis has been seemingly intractable, with new, record-high deaths year after year.
  — Alex Hogan Reprints, STAT, 29 Dec. 2022
• The package faces an uncertain fate in a House riven by an intractable battle over its next speaker.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• In an era defined by seemingly intractable global problems, this is one that can be solved.
  — Rachel Silverman Bonnifield, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024