random sample
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He says his office reviewed a random sample of 220 claims and found 398 violations of state law in roughly half.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The first thing is, if you're going to have a random sample of people deliberating, you need to have a good random sample.
From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025
Our verification of a random sample of 400 of them found the database to be reliable.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025
The Gallup poll interviewed a random sample of 1,016 adults from across the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Surprisingly, however, a random sample of 747 death notices published in Salt Lake City, Utah, newspapers during 1977 indicated that 46 percent of the decedents surveyed died within the three- month period following their birthdays.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
