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[ adverb ] in a random manner

Examples

"the houses were randomly scattered" "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"

Used in print

(Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)

The purpose of washing is , obviously , to remove soils which are arbitrarily classed in the four major categories given below :

(Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)

Sometimes when there are many outcomes for a single trial , we group these outcomes into two classes , as in the example of the die , where we have arbitrarily constructed the classes `` ace '' and `` not ace '' .

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