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Six example sentences with tractable, each labelled with its topic.
Splitting the monolith into small services made the codebase tractable, and a new hire could ship a change in days.
Technology
The class became tractable once the teacher gave each child a job, and the shouting stopped within a fortnight.
Psychology
The equation is only tractable if you assume the fluid is frictionless, which is why textbooks always start there.
Science
The negotiation became tractable once each side put its three real demands on a single page.
Business
Economists simplify the model until it is tractable, then check whether the simplified version still predicts anything.
Economics
The rebellious caucus proved more tractable after the leader promised each member a seat on a committee.
Politics
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