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haphazard

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


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Without money to maintain it, a haphazard dismantling of the station began in 1963.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 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

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

You may reasonably conclude this is a haphazard system by which to make such important decisions.

From MarketWatch Mar. 10, 2026

To meet once a week seemed to him much less regular, entirely too haphazard, bordering on carelessness.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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