irreducible

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Years of pioneering work, along with the new availability of powerful atom-smashing machines, made it possible to split apart what had once seemed to be the irreducible constituents of matter.

From Washington Post

There’s a speechless and irreducible quality to great art, a value that goes beyond communication or advocacy.

From New York Times

In a certain irreducible number of transactions, however, the participants do have a legitimate interest in confidentiality — of a competitive business idea, say, or political organizing.

From Washington Post

Education draws out the uniqueness of people to be all that they can be in the light of their irreducible singularity.

From Washington Post

But when the problems addressed are irreducibly political and therefore collective problems, the genre’s frame renders them insoluble.

From New York Times