Both Uses
irreducible
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- He had a knack for breaking things down into quiet, irreducible truths.†
Chpt 20. *
- I didn't reflect on it at the time—indeed, not until many years later—but what I was experiencing was the irreducibly real Japan: the Japan that had existed before the militaristic epoch that culminated in the Pacific War, and that will continue into the next millennium.†
Chpt 20.
Definitions:
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(1)
(irreducible) impossible to make smaller or simpler without losing what is essential
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)