arbitrarily

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East Coast suggests White House recognition that such agreements can’t be ended arbitrarily, the analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The UN says 73 of its staff "remain arbitrarily detained" by the Houthis, with some of these detentions going back to 2021.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 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

More or less reflexively, he dropped into his equations something called the cosmological constant, which arbitrarily counterbalanced the effects of gravity, serving as a kind of mathematical pause button.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson