arbitrary
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He found the work boring, subject to arbitrary management dictates and not satisfactorily remunerative.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
That’s a quintessential example of an agency action that’s unlawfully arbitrary and capricious.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026
Brendan O'Hara, vice chair of the all-parliamentary group for arbitrary detention and hostage affairs, previously told the BBC the Foremans were "innocent victims of a geopolitical power struggle".
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
In her ruling, she said the government's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was "likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious."
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Like all alphabetic writing systems, English uses many logograms, such as numerals, $, %, and + : that is, arbitrary signs, not made up of phonetic elements, representing whole words.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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