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

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

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan