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arbitrarily

[ahr-bi-trair-uh-lee] / ˌɑr bɪˈtrɛər ə li /


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It’s important to know what the fees and investment options are within your retirement accounts, and anyone thinking of consolidating accounts should look at those factors before arbitrarily rolling anything over.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

I’ve read criticisms of the Doomsday Clock, that it’s gimmicky, like it’s arbitrarily trying to measure something that can’t be defined so easily.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

OpenAI’s model showed otherwise, finding arrangements that beat his supposed limit again and again, even as the number of dots grows arbitrarily large.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

"You're able to do two things that are normally not compatible with one another: Use entanglement to build an exquisitely sensitive sensor but also have robustness to arbitrarily large amounts of noise," Clerk said.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2026

“For example, could you have arrived at azoth if you’d arbitrarily closed your mind to certain chemical compounds?”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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