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US
/ˈɹændəm/
]
[ UK /ɹˈændəm/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈændəm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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)
- From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.
- Here we use the EM algorithm to obtain the maximum likelihood estimate of multinomial random variables with probabilities. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- In military, both guidance and Anti-TBM ask the equipment fast and flexible to locate and track accurately the random or moving goal in order to finish a serial action suck as aiming and track attack.
- 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.