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US
/ˈɹændəm/
]
[ UK /ɹˈændəm/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈændəm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
a random choice
bombs fell at random
random movements
How To Use random In A Sentence
- Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then. "I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
- The school's enrolment policy is based on three criteria, after which random selection is used.
- Your fellow potential jurors will be chosen at random from the pool available, and then slimmed down to just 12 in court, again at random.
- The wheel is designed with obstacles in the ball's path to randomise its movement.
- The randomization schedule was centrally generated by the study's sponsor, stratified by site and by using a fixed block size of 4.
- Meanwhile, I will be having a final farewell party this Friday with all my buddies, climbing friends, old coworkers, old classmates and random strangers.
- The most striking but by no means the only instances are the hole cut in a page of his novel Albert Angelo and the presentation, in The Unfortunates, of a box containing a bundle of unbound gatherings to be read in random order.
- Maru smiled slightly, unsnapping the flap of her bag and starting to dig through all of the random objects.
- They change the number at random intervals and if you miss a sign, bingo - gotcha!
- Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with The Columbian stories: Columns