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[ran-duhm] / ˈræn dəm /


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A U.K. source shared that this was because this wasn’t an audience of Tom Petty fans but rather random people who’d put in for tickets and wouldn’t have been encouraged to be enthusiastic.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

For the uninitiated, Mad Libs is a decades-old word game in which players fill in the blanks of a prewritten story with random adjectives, nouns, and verbs before reading the surrealist results out loud.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Anthony Cheetham and Ram Seshadri went through a random sample of the supposed new crystals.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Before Thursday, connections were consistently failing at high speed, whereas the situation now is random, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

I mean, I’m not going to sit alone at a random table in the cafeteria and pretend that everyone in the room is not whispering about me.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz


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