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

Taxes arbitrarily imposed by the executive because, say, someone was rude to him would seem to go against both the letter and the spirit of the revolution of 1776.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 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

Like many former empires, Iran’s borders were drawn rather arbitrarily with respect to sizable ethnic communities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

As a result, he said, he was arbitrarily dropping all of our classifications by one notch.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela