irreducible
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Taken in isolation, these three irreducible realities are opaque; for Rosenzweig they become intelligible only in relation to one another.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
For so many Labour MPs, that safety net, and a passionate commitment to it, form their irreducible core.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025
From there, officials are still confident that the remaining truly unidentified cases, which are down to an "irreducible minimum," do not constitute threats to the public.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024
And astronomers say that, given irreducible gaps in our knowledge of ’Oumuamua, this new proposal may never be fully accepted either.
From Scientific American • Mar. 22, 2023
No doubt I am guilty of some injustice here, but it is irreducible, since I cannot risk assuming that the humanity of these people is more real to them than their uniforms.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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