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haphazard

[hap-haz-erd, hap-haz-erd] / hæpˈhæz ərd, ˈhæpˌhæz ərd /


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Tools for saving markets from drying up are more haphazard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

High levels of Cold War "secrecy" were a factor in the haphazard approach taken towards the medical records of nuclear test veterans, an official report has found.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

As Artie pursues a haphazard path toward better self-understanding, Ms. Strout deploys the fictional strategies that have made her novels feel as if they are about more than ordinary subjects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Buses are infrequent and haphazard, while the subway has only six trundling lines radiating out from the centre, making connections impossible without going all the way in and then all the way out again.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Even minus the books she’d lost in the miniflood, I could have stayed up until morning reading through the haphazard stacks of titles.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green




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