arbitrarily
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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
He said the board doesn’t act arbitrarily or use personal taste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
God could have made the universe in many different ways; he has arbitrarily chosen to make it as it is, and the order it displays is an order he has chosen to impose upon it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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