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How to pronounce intractability in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms intractableness
Type of trait
Has types defiance, disobedience, fractiousness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, stubbornness, unmanageableness, unruliness, wildness, wilfulness, balkiness, willfulness
Derivation intractable

Examples of intractability

intractability
The challenges add up to a new regard for human intractability-and potentiality.
From the time.com
We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity.
From the abcnews.go.com
We can admit the intractability of deprivation, and still strive for dignity.
From the post-gazette.com
Bond resents M for her intractability and for not letting him be a screw-up.
From the sacbee.com
It is very often those desperate measures that increase the conflict's intractability.
From the psychcentral.com
And the intractability of the problem with North Korea will not get any better either.
From the economist.com
Given the messy intractability of state failure, who or what has a chance of solving it?
From the economist.com
Such conundrums point up the peculiar make-up and intractability of the opposing forces.
From the economist.com
But I think Diamond may overdo the intractability of African mammals.
From the kristof.blogs.nytimes.com
More examples
  • The trait of being hard to influence or control
  • Computational complexity theory is a branch of the theory of computation in computer science and mathematics that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty. ...
  • The state of being intractable; intractableness
  • Compositional schemes need very careful designing if the plan is for a computer to do a lot of the analysis, post-hoc classification and checking for redundancy and nonsense. ...