arbitrarily
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"Authorities must allow young people to exercise these rights without fear of being hit by tear gas grenades or batons, or being arbitrarily taken into police custody," said Amnesty France president Anne Savinel-Barras.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The universe contains a finite amount of information that can become accessible to us, even if we waited for an arbitrarily long time.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Foro Penal confirmed the release of Miguel Castillo Cedeño, who it said had been arbitrarily detained since June 2019.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The suit notes precedent is a case from 1977 that ruled the White House cannot arbitrarily restrict press credentials for reporters on grounds that there’s retaliation for viewpoint discrimination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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
Vocabulary lists containing arbitrarily
Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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The Freedom of Information Act (2016)
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The Martian
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