random sample
Example Sentences
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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 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
Our verification of a random sample of 400 of them found the database to be reliable.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025
The survey was not given to a random sample of transgender people, so it cannot be interpreted as representative of the transgender population as a whole.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
The videotape of Bill and Sue’s discussion seems, at least at first, to be a random sample of a very ordinary kind of conversation that couples have all the time.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
