arbitrarily
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High Commissioner for Human Rights called for the immediate and unconditional release of all those "arbitrarily detained" in New Delhi.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
The group said that people sent to Eswatini, Ghana and South Sudan, had been arbitrarily detained and faced ill-treatment while in detention.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The universe contains a finite amount of information that can become accessible to us, even if we waited for an arbitrarily long time.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
District Court Judge David O. Carter issued a preliminary injunction finding that HUD acted arbitrarily and capriciously and ordered it to restore LAHSA’s authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
It seemed unnecessarily cruel to make an old man wear a cap sideways like that and arbitrarily re-order the way in which age chose to hang from his chin.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing arbitrarily
Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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The Freedom of Information Act (2016)
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The Martian
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