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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

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022

Some have dismissed the play as being thin to the point of evanescent, but that may be because it doesn’t satisfy the insatiable biographical hunger for answers that these irreducibly complex figures provoke.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019

And this, if Colette had a creed, might be where it lies: in an adamant insistence on the irreducibly individual – just as she, throughout her life, insisted on her own right to be so.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2019

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