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
These prove out Fielder’s intuition that aviation safety depends on candid cockpit conversation, a particularly high-stakes—and, crucially, perhaps tractable—example of Fielder’s over-all preoccupation with the fear and anxiety that inhibits genuine communication.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
Gabriel Navarro and two colleagues turned one of group theory’s biggest open conjectures into a tractable problem.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2025
In the 12th century, for instance, the Dutch began to drain swamps to create tractable land for agriculture.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
That’s why Davidson and colleagues decided to tackle a more tractable question: Can an AI model pick out its own response to a question from among several options?
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tractable
obedient
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The generals reduced even their limited need for an obedient prime minister.—
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Since Francoism promoted an image of women as obedient wives and self-sacrificing mothers devoted to the Catholic family model, Republican women were demonized as immoral, dangerous and unworthy of motherhood.—
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“Tractable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tractable. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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