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

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

The ethos of atomic physics—the relentless drive to find irreducible particles, universal mechanisms, and systematic explanations—would soon permeate biology and drive the discipline toward new methods and new questions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee