arbitrarily

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Coyle, from Colorado, was arrested in January 2025, according to the Foley Foundation, which advocates for the release of Americans taken hostage or arbitrarily detained abroad.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

In most places, students are arbitrarily assigned to a school on the basis of geography.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

"Performing a logical operation in this fault-tolerant way would be relatively easy if we could move our qubits around and connect them arbitrarily to each other," says Kerschbaum.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026

The deal was also criticised by Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse, who says she was "arbitrarily denied entry" to Hong Kong to visit her newborn grandson last year.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Silverfish tunneled through the pages, burrowing arbitrarily from species to species, turning organized information into yellow lace.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy