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View synonyms for randomly

randomly

[ ran-duhm-lee ]

adverb

  1. 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.

  2. 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.



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Example Sentences

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.

From Vox

Then make another random slice through each of those two polygons.

The fact they explored all three at random seemed to show they could not remember which parts of the maze they had seen already.

The only difference between training runs were the random values assigned to the neural network at the start.

Instead of working your way horizontally across the board, you select random clues from anywhere on the board, one at a time.

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.

We 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.

The 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.

"Bang," he said randomly, pointing his finger at his head, and then jerked his hand away as if it had burned him.

In swift water, seine-hauls were usually made downstream, but in quiet areas seining was done randomly.

Cages 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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