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And while such daily interactions are reduced to thumbs slipping over greasy rectangles of glass, pinball is irreducibly concrete: physics and mechanics turned into dazzling entertainment, a silvery dance with gravity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

In one fictional moment, he gives us something unmistakably, irreducibly real, partly by puncturing the fantasy of human invincibility that his co-star has never stopped trying to sell.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

And finally, the theological disagreements that his cult posed to Judaism and Christianity are irreducibly complex.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022

Everts also examines the cultural obsession with pheromones, and the idea that odor messages are somehow irreducibly authentic.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2021

Something irreducibly human, or male, threatened the order of their household, and Briony knew that unless she helped her sister, they would all suffer.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan