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irreducible

adjective as in net

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For so many Labour MPs, that safety net, and a passionate commitment to it, form their irreducible core.

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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.

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I realize this is heresy, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the irreducible strangeness of the drama.

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The larger the integrated information, the more the circuit is irreducible, the less it can be considered just the superposition of independent subcircuits.

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There’s a gap — or a lag, maybe — between how new technologies can reduce our personhood to data, and the irreducible facts of our bodies, our health, our need to eat and sleep.

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