arbitrariness

Example Sentences

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Many of the forty people awaiting execution at the federal facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, are there because of arbitrariness, discrimination, or official misconduct in the death penalty system.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024

As a student at the University of Chicago, he became fascinated with the ways her work “gave you a view of the arbitrariness of cultural mores, cultural systems.”

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

I think the thing that’s common is the arbitrariness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2023

Yet the arbitrariness of opportunity and vocation — who gets to make art? who has to dig ditches? — is clear and pointed.

From New York Times • May 21, 2023

Initially, one of the most puzzling features of animal domestication is the seeming arbitrariness with which some species have been domesticated while their close relatives have not.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond