randomly
Americanadverb
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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.
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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.
Other Word Forms
- nonrandomly adverb
Etymology
Origin of randomly
Example Sentences
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By the end of kindergarten, children who were randomly selected through a lottery to attend Montessori preschools outperformed their peers in reading, executive function, short-term memory, and social understanding.
From Science Daily
They recruited more than 1,000 people, randomly assigned different types of resolutions, and tracked them for a full year.
As a next step, they hope to test cause and effect using approaches such as controlled experiments, including designs where some scientists are randomly assigned to use LLMs and others are not.
From Science Daily
The document says human testers from AI companies should randomly evaluate 4,000 pieces of training data for each format of content their AI can handle, such as text, video and images.
“Last December, we were packed, and I was at the front talking to people, and I just randomly asked this group, ‘Why are you here?’”
From Los Angeles Times
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