aleatory

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The tonal lurching makes “Cardinal” feel whimsical and even a bit aleatory, like a John Cage sonata.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2018

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

It was only by religious rites that the aleatory element in the struggle for existence could be controlled.

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