How to Use irreducible in a Sentence

irreducible

adjective

• They thought the world was made up of four irreducible elements: earth, air, fire, and water.
• But in all of those formats, the secret, irreducible unit is the act.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 8 Jan. 2020
• Hill had to confront the fact that therapy is irreducible to a set of abstract tools.
  — Zachary Siegel, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• No less than the higher electric rates and lower profits, these, too, are part of the irreducible costs of climate change.
  — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• And the songs reminded me of one of life's irreducible joys: that there is so much more to peak experiences than can be divined from a glance at a country's GDP.
  — Teju Cole, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2020
• In this wise, melancholic work, the death of a child is an irreducible truth beside which all else is contingent, an iron sadness that exists at the core of everything.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• The major hurdle is that time perception is complex, irreducible, and distributed across the brain and body.
  — Josh Wilbur, WIRED, 4 June 2019
• Instead of God, what directs the evolution of each Archie seems to be an irreducible kernel of identity.
  — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• Two identities on the run, each one fighting with his own ghost, who discover in their duel an irreducible common ground that unites them.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 1 Aug. 2022
• There is real pain and irreducible violence in the music.
  — Wright Thompson, National Geographic, 1 June 2020
• The irreducible essence of policing is not law enforcement itself but discretion over which laws to enforce, over how to achieve order.
  — Stuart Schrader, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• The zeros of the zeta function are closely tied to the distribution of the prime numbers — the irreducible integers out of which all others are constructed.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2013
• But there’s one irreducible truth to every human endeavor: risk is risky.
  — Scott Carney, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2020
• The inner sanctum of the soul, the irreducible and aboriginal seat of judgment about the objective truth of things and deeds, the freedom of conscience became even more cherished at the dawn of Christianity.
  — Matthew Mehan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• The result is too vast and irreducible to fully appreciate in a single reading.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• But there is nothing rigid about the ideas swirling through those spaces: about cancel culture and #MeToo, about the Western canon and the artistically marginalized, about the corruptions of power and the irreducible nature of great art.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• There’s only one aspect of Lea’s personality that the movie presents as (nearly) irreducible—namely, desire, the fact that she is indeed attracted to Tom, more or less from the start.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Few irreducible principles have been evident in her political career, but one of them is the right to the pursuit of happiness.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• This was the 1850s, immigrants were falling out of favor with American-borns, and race, in the form of slavery, was the irreducible foundation for all political discourse.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 16 Jan. 2020
• All of Aviv’s subjects, herself included, live at the mercy of social and medical constructions, and yet strive to shape and reshape their irreducible, protean selves.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
• This is a week to remember your irreducible weirdness, your unknowable messiness, your desires, your angles, your light.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 7 May 2018
• What remains from Smith and Carlos’s act, however, is irreducible.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• The thing is defiantly irreducible, because its aims are simple and direct.
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• Good art is irreducible to attitudes, and great art demolishes them.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• Like his conception of irreducible manliness, though, the argument hasn't gone away.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 3 Nov. 2021
• What has gotten so fouled up that vague symbolic fights obscure the irreducible communal basis of our prosperity and strength?
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Odenkirk’s belief that truly great jokes carry some irreducible amount of anger — and that this anger’s noblest function is to torpedo pieties and hypocrisies — helps explain his lifelong commitment to sketch comedy.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• At some point taste, like talent, becomes an irreducible entity.
  — Hermione Hoby, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
• The irreducible truth is that these conundrums have no definitive answer.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
• Corwin added scope with montages of worldwide impact and nature inserts, not so much to underscore the story’s climate change metaphor, but to represent irreducible truth in a scenario steeped in the misinformation of our age.
  — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024