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[ran-duhm] / ˈræn dəm /


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A U.K. source shared that this was because this wasn’t an audience of Tom Petty fans but rather random people who’d put in for tickets and wouldn’t have been encouraged to be enthusiastic.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

For the uninitiated, Mad Libs is a decades-old word game in which players fill in the blanks of a prewritten story with random adjectives, nouns, and verbs before reading the surrealist results out loud.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Reporters manually checked a random 20% sample of the extracted claims and found no errors that affected the analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Any random windfalls, such as a tax refund or work bonus, should also go toward paying off your credit-card bill.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

“I shouldn’t let her get to me. I mean, we’re talking about someone who felt the need to prove she was a badass at the expense of a random teenager asking a completely valid question.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith


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