arbitrarily

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

He added that there was a child among those arbitrarily detained.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 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

This shows that, indeed, Achilles is getting arbitrarily close to the two-foot mark as the race progresses: two feet is the limit of the race.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife