haphazard
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You could take many of those same critiques and apply them to the haphazard way in which city and county leaders have addressed homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
The pavilions are scattered in seemingly haphazard fashion, in keeping with Mr. Govan’s conviction that visitors should follow their own curiosity and make their own connections without being subjugated to a hierarchy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
You may reasonably conclude this is a haphazard system by which to make such important decisions.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026
In fact, Gowda's collection doesn't have a librarian and books are stacked on shelves and piled on the floor in a haphazard manner.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
So Matty swept the wooden floor each day and straightened the bedcovers: neatly on the man’s bed, with haphazard indifference on his own, in the room next to the kitchen.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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