irreproducible
adjective
unable to be reproduced or recreated.
irreproducibility
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a word derived from
irreproducible.
Example Sentences
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As the National Association of Scholars will soon publish in a comprehensive piece by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski, the Reference Manual pervasively scants the effects of modern science’s irreproducibility crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
Each scientific discipline needs to accept responsibility for its share of the irreproducibility crisis and incorporate strict standards into its procedures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2018
Leonard Freedman, the lead author of the paper on the economics of irreproducibility, has been pushing very hard for scientists to pay attention to the cell lines that they use in research.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2016
Instead, the researchers surveyed existing analyses of factors that contribute to irreproducibility, using these to estimate an overall reproducibility rate — and to weigh the relative influences of various factors.
From Nature ● Jun. 8, 2015
Lander, who played a leading role in the decoding of the human genome, says the irreproducibility problem is caused in part by the many variables that go into any experiment.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2015
