as in small
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not able to be made smaller or simpler
They thought the world was made up of four irreducible elements: earth, air, fire, and water. an irreducible fraction
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But pro-Palestinian activists now often view the rejection of Zionism as an irreducible part of the cause — and are aware of how accusations of antisemitism have been wielded in the past to the detriment of that cause.
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Charles Homans Gabra Zackman Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 29 May 2024
These smaller polynomials, known as irreducible polynomials, are the prime numbers of the polynomial world.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2024
Advertisement Books Los Angeles is refracted in all its irreducible, unexplainable glory in ‘Dear Los Angeles’
Nov. 30, 2018
That said, this collection — at least chronologically — comes second.
—David Kipen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
Klay is sensitive to the irreducible gap between the fewer than one percent of Americans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 99 percent who did not.
—Phil Klay, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
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Charles Homans Gabra Zackman Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 29 May 2024
These smaller polynomials, known as irreducible polynomials, are the prime numbers of the polynomial world.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2024
Advertisement Books Los Angeles is refracted in all its irreducible, unexplainable glory in ‘Dear Los Angeles’
Nov. 30, 2018
That said, this collection — at least chronologically — comes second.
—David Kipen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
Klay is sensitive to the irreducible gap between the fewer than one percent of Americans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 99 percent who did not.
—Phil Klay, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
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