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arbitrarily

adverb as in summarily

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Students of history will note that one of the reasons why the American colonies became the United States was because colonists got tired of King George III arbitrarily prosecuting those who disagreed with him.

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The invisible social line—which, if crossed, might make her think I was sassy—was narrow and was applied arbitrarily.

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“I am concerned this Safe Sleep program—which I happened to arbitrarily spot-check---is not an outlier,” he wrote.

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The bishops called for immigration reform and expressed sadness that some immigrants had arbitrarily lost their legal status.

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"If Gaddafi was able to be arbitrarily detained in Lebanon for 10 years, it's because the justice system was not independent," Bayon said, according to AFP.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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