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One of those displaced by the advance was Jamal Abu Miri, a 68-year-old retired land surveyor who understood firsthand that the Yellow Line was more than just an arbitrary marker on a map.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Chairman Brendan Carr correctly argues that the arbitrary ownership cap is out of step with today’s increasingly diverse and competitive media market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Pitman’s finding that the process is arbitrary is really a finding that the number doesn’t mean what the state says it means.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
These days, $1 million is an arbitrary number, like getting 10,000 steps or reaching your first $100,000 in savings.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Like all alphabetic writing systems, English uses many logograms, such as numerals, $, %, and + : that is, arbitrary signs, not made up of phonetic elements, representing whole words.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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