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.
“A mist of the miraculous,” she writes, of life itself, “irreducible to stone and bone, pulsating with that eternal question: What is all this?”
For so many Labour MPs, that safety net, and a passionate commitment to it, form their irreducible core.
From BBC
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
I realize this is heresy, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the irreducible strangeness of the drama.
From Los Angeles Times
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