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randomly
[ ran-duhm-lee ]
adverb
- without definite aim, reason, sense, or pattern:
This poem just seems like a bunch of words randomly put together.
Freckles generally appear randomly on the face and upper shoulders.
- Statistics. in a way that gives each item in a set the equal probability of being chosen:
A survey of 309 women aged 15 to 49 was conducted in nine randomly selected villages.
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz··dz· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of randomly1
Example Sentences
are the odds that Luke would randomly buy a salvaged droid that just so happened to be on the lam from his own daddy?
Just as the toddler gets used to the face repeatedly popping up on the right side of his screen, it randomly starts appearing on the other side too.
He said they were monitored by cameras, often beaten and randomly deprived of food and sleep.
Instead, jobs are assigned randomly, which means a higher proportion of students are not getting what they asked for.
Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar earlier this week echoed the army account, saying "the IDF did not randomly attack an ambulance".
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