arbitrary
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Human Rights Watch has said the removal of voters was "arbitrary and deeply flawed".
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Kingdom, “An action is arbitrary and capricious when the agency relies on inappropriate factors, fails to consider important aspects of the problem, or ignores relevant evidence.”
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
By neglecting to make individual determinations, the judge wrote, the city “failed to do its due diligence, making its actions arbitrary and capricious.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
And it really is purely arbitrary whether your case is going to come up for trial before you've turned 18 or not.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
They don’t go all the way to zero distance from the electron when they calculate the electron’s true mass and charge; they stop short of zero at an arbitrary distance.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Some contained codes, devised by Anson Stager, general manager of U.S. military telegraphs, that inserted decoy words or arbitraries into messages that were unscrambled with cipher charts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
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