irreducible
adjective
not reducible; incapable of being reduced or of being diminished or simplified further.
irreducibly
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a word derived from
irreducible.
Example Sentences
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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
The Harvey Fierstein glimpsed here is tantalizingly, defiantly, irreducibly complex.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
And finally, the theological disagreements that his cult posed to Judaism and Christianity are irreducibly complex.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
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
