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

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

He was also an important literary innovator who picked up where the Surrealists left off, pioneering the Cut-Up Method, the aleatory springboard for Burroughs’s best writing.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2010

The aleatory interest always averages up, but the successful, who have enjoyed good fortune for a time, believe that it must last for them, and forget that the balance requires bad luck.

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