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Those odds tend to react to old-fashioned polling, which are a snapshot of potential voters—some random, others less so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
It turns out his death was much more complicated than a random bolt of lightning, and Sister, then a teenager, was involved in ways she has never revealed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"It started with me mixing a bunch of random stuff. My mum used to always be shouting at me saying 'stop, that's making a mess’."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
If the older silica-poor disks and their seemingly random periods of changing infrared brightness are caused by orbital instability, the pattern would be broadly compatible with the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesis for our solar system.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
I took my samples from the riverside willows, the new blue willow grove, and the leaves I’d collected from random trees.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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