irreproducible
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- irreproducibility noun
Etymology
Origin of irreproducible
First recorded in 1865–70; ir- 2 + reproducible ( def. )
Example Sentences
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“Back to the Future: The Musical,” based on the first of the time-travel films in the billion-dollar franchise, faces an additional hurdle: It hinges on a star performance that would seem to be irreproducible onstage.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
And money spent on invalid science is money wasted: one study puts the cost of irreproducible medical research in the U.S. alone at $28 billion a year.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2021
What’s been unclear since “Old Town Road” is whether Lil Nas X will be able to outlive the one-hit-wonder status that song’s irreproducible success seemed to foist upon him.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2021
Many researchers say they now see social priming not so much as a way to sway people’s unconscious behaviour, but as an object lesson in how shaky statistical methods fooled scientists into publishing irreproducible results.
From Nature • Dec. 10, 2019
The stomach itself, in its most irreproducible tissue, had undergone a partial but permanent disorganization.
From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.
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