randomly
without definite aim, reason, sense, or pattern: This poem just seems like a bunch of words randomly put together.Freckles generally appear randomly on the face and upper shoulders.
Statistics. in a way that gives each item in a set the equal probability of being chosen: A survey of 309 women aged 15 to 49 was conducted in nine randomly selected villages.
Origin of randomly
1Other words from randomly
- non·ran·dom·ly, adverb
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How to use randomly in a sentence
Of course, this being Sam and Dean, they keep right on fighting monsters — and it’s a random monster fight, not long after their big win, that finishes Dean off once and for all.
Supernatural’s bonkers series finale marked the end of an era of fandom | Aja Romano | November 20, 2020 | VoxThen make another random slice through each of those two polygons.
Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology | Joshua Sokol | November 19, 2020 | Quanta MagazineThe fact they explored all three at random seemed to show they could not remember which parts of the maze they had seen already.
Warning! Junk foods can harm a teen’s brain | Sharon Oosthoek | November 19, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThe only difference between training runs were the random values assigned to the neural network at the start.
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed | Will Heaven | November 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewInstead of working your way horizontally across the board, you select random clues from anywhere on the board, one at a time.
Can You Snatch Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory? | Zach Wissner-Gross | November 13, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
At that unlucky moment, his call was being randomly screened.
“There are not that many bad… guys whose goal in life is to go and randomly mess with patients in hospitals,” Hoyme said.
And randomly selected panels are well suited to political questions that we might otherwise addresses through a big referendum.
Is It Time to Take a Chance on Random Representatives? | Michael Schulson | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe could be randomly detained or harassed in order to make an example of us.
The universe becomes a chaotic universe if you have a parent or authority figure who just punishes you totally randomly.
Michael Sheen’s Masterful Study of Sex and Insecurity | Caryn James | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe French word "mouill" appears, apparently randomly, both with and without the acute accent.
Because of dependency on cover, woodrats do not forage randomly in all directions from the house.
Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana | Henry S. Fitch"Bang," he said randomly, pointing his finger at his head, and then jerked his hand away as if it had burned him.
Games | Katherine MacLeanIn swift water, seine-hauls were usually made downstream, but in quiet areas seining was done randomly.
Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas | W. L. MinckleyCages were on one of five shelves of a movable tier of shelving, and were rotated randomly, from one shelf to another, each week.
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