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
Downing Street later said it was "not setting an arbitrary target or timetable".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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
At Cowles Commission seminars, Friedman persistently argued that their modeling choices were arbitrary and their complex general equilibrium multiple regression models didn’t generate predictions supported by the evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Such behavior, the journal said, “would be called treason in countries less enlightened and more arbitrary than ours.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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