aleatory

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That’s true of Silverman’s comedy in general, built as it is on apparently aleatory mismatches of tone and content.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2022

The white-on-white markings can be seen as aleatory wall drawings.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2017

Many of the Plastic Ono Band’s early recordings in fact owe substantial debts to Coleman and other free jazz performers, to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Cage, and indeed to Mr. Ichiyanagi’s early aleatory compositions.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2015

As a generation from whom little was expected, we cultivated an aleatory, “slacker” ethos—well depicted in Richard Linklater’s film of the same name.

From Salon • May 25, 2013

Misfortunes arrest their attention and remain in their memory. 7Hence the ills of life are the mode of manifestation of the aleatory element which has most affected life policy.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham