randomize
Americanverb (used with object)
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randomizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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randomized,
past participle, past
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randomizing
present participle
verb
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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randomizesimple
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randomizessimple
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have randomizedperfect
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has randomizedperfect
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am randomizingprogressive
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are randomizingprogressive
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is randomizingprogressive
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have been randomizingperfect progressive
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has been randomizingperfect progressive
Past
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randomizedsimple
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had randomizedperfect
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was randomizingprogressive
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were randomizingprogressive
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had been randomizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of randomize
Explanation
To randomize is to arrange something in an irregular or haphazard order. If your math teacher randomizes the questions on a quiz, each student will get a different set of problems to solve, in a different order. If you disorder any group so that it is random, and you randomize it. The way to randomize the cards in a deck is to shuffle it well; each card in the deck is in its place by pure chance. And if you want to randomize your book collection, just put the books on the shelf anywhere, rather than in alphabetical order or grouped by subject.
Example Sentences
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Now, we’ll randomize the kicker’s run-up to the ball using different body language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
This study did not randomize participants, and people knew which group they had been placed in.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2024
A digital system is used to randomize and choose winners.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
But that study did not randomize patients to receive the treatment or a placebo, the gold standard for controlled trials.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 27, 2020
You might be able to take one single bit of data out that way, but to jerk out a whole body of knowledge like this would completely randomize his circuits.
From Unwise Child by Randall Garrett
Instead, "Kaleidoscope" is a nonlinear series that randomizes the order the episodes play for each viewer, meaning they may to watch in a different order from their friend.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2022
The bot I really like right now is called @streetsandsheets, which takes the phrase "I'm a _____ on the streets and a ____ in the streets" and randomizes the words to fill in the sentence.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2014
Conducting a trial that is randomized and placebo-controlled, meaning some participants will get the vaccine and others will get a placebo, helps eliminate the “healthy volunteer effect” commonly seen in observational studies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
A systematic review published in August 2026 examined 23 randomized trials of sucralose and cardiometabolic outcomes in healthy adults.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Evidence for the effectiveness of AI tutors comes from a randomized trial of the Khanmigo program in Tennessee middle schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
While surveys suggest the drinks can help people cut back on alcohol consumption, Stanford University School of Medicine instructor Molly Bowdring said she is aware of only one randomized controlled trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The security bots continue their randomized rotations; some of the assets being used to guard this auction now drift off to patrol another one that has just started.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
The researchers recommend that carmakers try randomizing a radar system's operating parameters over time and adding safeguards to the processing algorithms to spot similar attacks.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
Those studies require randomizing patients to either receive plasma or a dummy infusion.
From Fox News ● Aug. 26, 2020
Google began randomizing Assistant’s presentation like this last year, and on Google Nest and Home devices in the US, it’s already randomized the default voice.
From The Verge ● Sep. 18, 2019
With our culture has randomizing and splintering by the second, the question thus becomes: Is it even be possible for Seinfeld to exist in 2017 AD?
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 22, 2017
As of 2010, randomizing racial residential patterns in major metropolitan areas would require 47 percent of African Americans to move.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2017
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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