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random

If something is random, there is no purpose, reason, or pattern. I have to sit there like typing in random keywords to see if it's a keyword. Why don't you get organised instead of just contacting random people. If a process is random, every option has an equal chance of happening. 20 per cent of the random sample of the libraries were public in any normal sense of the word. Banks use random numbers to make codes to keep your computer banking safe and secret.

random

lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance a random choice bombs fell at random random movements

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Simple sentences

I didn't know the correct answer, so I made a random guess.
I used to read novels at random.
Choose three books at random.
The opinion poll was based on a random sample of adults.
The subjects for the experiment were chosen at random.
Animals seem to move at random.
He listened to his CDs at random.
A random variable is definitely a constant if the variance is zero.
We picked the number at random.
This is a random sentence from Tatoeba.
Our random selection has chosen you as a possible winner!
Why are people always called Tom in random sentences?
The burglar didn't have any plan - he just entered the shop and grabbed things at random.
He chose them at random.
He picked her at random.
The questionnaires were distributed at random.
You had better stop buying things at random.
He bought books at random.
My software never has bugs. It just has random features.
The difference between a strictly quasilinear function and a quasilinear function is that, in the second case, the finite difference between two random points may be equal to zero.
This is a random sentence.
Without the random mutation of genes there would be no evolution.
Many games use dice as a random number generator.
Humans are very poor random number generators. If you ask someone to pick a number from 1 to 4, they'll usually pick 3.

Movie subtitles

We're accidents, we're random.
We each take one and secrete it in a random room of our choice.
I am not to return to the office, and I need to be available for a 7:00 meeting at some random address.
We opened at random a book of maxims we found on a table.
The Alexander Peabody who represents Mrs. Carleton Random.
I represent the possible donor, Mrs. Carleton Random. whose legal advisor I happen to be.
Mr. Peabody, then I wonder. if you could use your influence with Mrs. Random, that would be nice.
It's Random.
Mrs. Carleton Random.
Mrs. Random invited me for dinner.
I am Mrs. Carleton Random, and I want my niece.
You're Mrs. Carleton Random? - I certainly am.
And you're not Mrs. Carleton Random, because I talked to her. on the phone not 10 minutes ago.
This old battle-ax keeps yelling that she's Mrs. Random.
They're dropping them at random, just waiting us out 'til we give up.
Mrs Miniver, Random Harvest, Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and that hardy perennial, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life in 1946 as the memorable Clarence, the angel.
I forgot. Mr. Peabody, then I wonder. if you could use your influence with Mrs. Random, that would be nice.
Why not? It's Random. Mrs. Carleton Random.
Mrs. Random invited me for dinner. Would you please find out if she still wants me?
You're Mrs. Carleton Random?
Mrs. Random is in bed. And don't you be calling up here again.
I'm looking for Mrs. Carleton Random.
I'm looking for a man by the name of Dr. David Huxley. Is he here with Mrs. Random?
So if these aren't random killings, then what are they?
It's Random. Mrs. Carleton Random.
Mrs. Random is in bed.
Is he here with Mrs. Random?

News and current affairs

He was not just incurious, but also arrogant: he insisted on making uninformed decisions, and hence made decisions that were essentially random.
Dollar commodity prices could plunge at any time, as a result of a new recession, an increase in real interest rates in the United States, fluctuations in climate, or random sector-specific factors.
Islamists view their acts of random mass murder not as a personal publicity stunt, but as a tactic in a holy war against the decadent, sinful West.
Each session is like an afternoon tea party where representatives offer random reflections, praise the correctness of the leadership's reports and attempt to show how conscientiously they have studied them and how deeply they comprehend them.
This requires data upon which to base the rise in mortality, usually derived by conducting a household survey on a random sample of the population.
Again, the researchers had interviewers administer what resembled a typical survey of a random sample of households.
But only a foaming polemicist would deny that there is also a case for hiking rates sooner, as long as the Fed doesn't throw random noise into the market by continuing to send spectacularly mixed signals about its beliefs and objectives.
The assumption was that random changes occur along all limbs of a genetic tree, but depending on the protein, only some small fraction survives.
Duplications of parts of a DNA genome occur constantly in all organisms, mainly as a result of random breakage and reunion events.
Institutions are torn down, property rights are called into question, and a random and ever more corrupt redistribution effort is underway.
Certain cities are ideally suited for this, because they concentrate different kinds of human capital and encourage random interactions between people with different knowledge and skills.
Of course, it used to be difficult to listen to customers; as a company, you could not station people everywhere to pick up random comments, and few customers cared enough to write actual letters - positive or negative.
Both were random hits generated by sudden shifts in investor confidence; both represented big setbacks that required years to recover from fully.
After all, contract killings and random shootings in restaurants are common affairs, and the idea of excessive protection from everyone goes back to Soviet days, when social contempt was cloaked in the guise of public safety.
Our maladies are largely random, and even if our doctors cannot tell us which ones we will have in the next year, or eliminate all of our suffering when we have them, we are happy for the help that they can provide.
Efforts to discourage refugees from arriving have not diminished the number of people who are granted asylum in Europe; they have merely made the process of being granted refugee status more random and dangerous.
It is a very dangerous expedient, one that undermines standards of value, renders economic calculation virtually impossible, and redistributes wealth at random.
Unfortunately, the diffusion and dissemination of innovative ideas in the fields of public health and health care is generally a random, haphazard, and inefficient process.
Though much of the violence in Iraq over the past six years has been random, aimed at soft targets such as markets and restaurants, its nature changed last summer.
Moreover, as United States troops have lowered their profile, daily violence of the more random variety has increased.

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