random sample
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He says his office reviewed a random sample of 220 claims and found 398 violations of state law in roughly half.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The pilot, which was carried out by the Public Sector Fraud Authority, the Home Office and HMRC, matched a random sample of 200,000 child benefit records with international travel data.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
The first thing is, if you're going to have a random sample of people deliberating, you need to have a good random sample.
From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025
For comparison, they also analyzed a random sample of Medicaid recipients who had no records in the child welfare system.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024
Then I gave the test to a relatively random sample of my friends and acquaintances, mostly journalists and professionals in their late twenties and thirties.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
