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irreducible

[ir-i-doo-suh-buhl, -dyoo-] / ˌɪr ɪˈdu sə bəl, -ˈdju- /


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In the future, an irreducible function of AI will certainly be to monitor how people and governments around the world are using AI to identify and interrupt antisocial projects before they come to fruition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025

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

This is a moment of clarity, in which all of the women in the room witness together both the necessity of forgiveness and its irreducible complications, its transformative power alongside its dangerous amenability to injustice.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023

Because, on the scale of the very small, matter exhibits some irreducible roughness.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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