arbitrarily

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Coyle, from Colorado, was arrested in January 2025, according to the Foley Foundation, which advocates for the release of Americans taken hostage or arbitrarily detained abroad.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

He added that there was a child among those arbitrarily detained.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Dr. Prasad’s kill shot last week is part of a broader pattern in which he has arbitrarily changed standards for approving new drugs and reversed the agency’s prior guidance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

"Performing a logical operation in this fault-tolerant way would be relatively easy if we could move our qubits around and connect them arbitrarily to each other," says Kerschbaum.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026

It’s like they just arbitrarily decided that one kind of DNA was bad and the other was good.”

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth