randomly

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“They were just randomly grabbing people,” he recalled.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

The goalposts change if, say, you randomly asked your friend to pick lottery numbers and you won $1 million.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Until now, most MXenes have been produced using chemical etching, a process that leaves a mix of surface atoms such as oxygen, fluorine, or chlorine scattered randomly across the material.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

We found the same pattern in three online experiments in which participants played the role of complaint handlers and were randomly shown either an original complaint or an AI-edited version of the same complaint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The problem’s often phrased in terms of a large number of men who check their hats at a restaurant, whereupon the attendant promptly scrambles the hat- check numbers randomly.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos