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View definitions for at random

at random

adjective as in hit or miss

adverb as in blindly

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He said he was selected at random to carry out the execution, and Eichmann was hanged on 30 May 1962.

From BBC

Members were called at random to approach a polished wooden box holding numbered chips that determined the order in which they would get to choose an available office suite.

Besides exposing coatings to high temperatures, Micro Materials also has a “woodpecker” device, a tiny diamond stylus, which repeatedly taps a coating at random locations to test its durability.

From BBC

The researchers did not select the drug at random: this study followed comprehensive analyses of genome data in order to find starting points for repurposing established drugs.

Some houses, seemingly scattered at random, were reduced to rubble with only a lifeless moonscape left behind.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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