as in obedient
readily giving in to the command or authority of another
put the dog in obedience classes, with the hopes of making her a little more tractable
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Recent Examples of tractable
In the 12th century, for instance, the Dutch began to drain swamps to create tractable land for agriculture.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
None of these visions, however, proved tractable: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran misjudged the strength of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli society, and the U.S.-Israeli alliance.
—Amos Yadlin, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2024
Like James’s governess, Christine becomes an author of sorts through her attempts to understand a situation that isn’t, in the end, all that tractable.
—Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
Medical researchers have made these images tractable for CNNs by breaking them up into much smaller fragments—square tiles, for example.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2021
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
None of these visions, however, proved tractable: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran misjudged the strength of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli society, and the U.S.-Israeli alliance.
—Amos Yadlin, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2024
Like James’s governess, Christine becomes an author of sorts through her attempts to understand a situation that isn’t, in the end, all that tractable.
—Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
Medical researchers have made these images tractable for CNNs by breaking them up into much smaller fragments—square tiles, for example.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tractable
obedient
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There’s a difference, school leaders said, between building the confidence of girls, whom society expects to be obedient and agreeable, and building the confidence of boys, who get different societal messages.—
Melanie Asmar,
Denver Post,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Tyrell Corporation, a powerful company that created the replicants and profits from sending them to work on distant colonies, sees them as nothing more than obedient workers.—
Claire A. Simmers,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Tractable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tractable. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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