While the third-grader was working on her math test, she realized that the fraction on her test was irreducible because it was already in its lowest possible terms.

Once the class size reached 40, the principal stated in a faculty meeting that the amount of students in a class was irreducible since they could not hire any more teachers.

With almost half the employees on summer vacation, the boss realized that working 12 hours a day would be irreducible because it would take him that long to finish all of the work for the week.

The long list of chores was irreducible for the perfectionist since her mother was visiting and she wanted her house to be spotless.

With the way the economy is going, the national debt will be irreducible unless the country starts paying back some of the foreign countries who lent it the money.