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arbitrarily

[ahr-bi-trair-uh-lee] / ˌɑr bɪˈtrɛər ə li /


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I’ve read criticisms of the Doomsday Clock, that it’s gimmicky, like it’s arbitrarily trying to measure something that can’t be defined so easily.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

OpenAI’s model showed otherwise, finding arrangements that beat his supposed limit again and again, even as the number of dots grows arbitrarily large.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

"You're able to do two things that are normally not compatible with one another: Use entanglement to build an exquisitely sensitive sensor but also have robustness to arbitrarily large amounts of noise," Clerk said.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2026

Rivera had been arbitrarily detained when he returned to his home in Nicaragua in September 2023.

From BBC May 31, 2026

“Oh, one or two,” I said arbitrarily: I would have liked to play in all of them.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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