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

Dalton’s simple insight was that at the root of all matter are exceedingly tiny, irreducible particles.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson