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“The insolvency date is an entirely solvable problem,” Martin O’Malley, who served as Social Security commissioner under the Biden administration, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Adding unpaid labor onto one’s daily workload is draining and, provided your domestic partner is open to ameliorating the imbalance, solvable.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
These barriers are all solvable with policies and programs that help support immigrants and refugees in re-entering the workforce.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
So, Marino's team turned what used to be pages of dense, nearly impenetrable math into a straightforward conversion table that translates a quantum problem into solvable equations.
From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2025
This number plays the role of “practical infinity” for computer problems which are solvable but only theoretically.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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