arbitrarily

Example Sentences

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East Coast suggests White House recognition that such agreements can’t be ended arbitrarily, the analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The UN says 73 of its staff "remain arbitrarily detained" by the Houthis, with some of these detentions going back to 2021.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 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

Neither you nor your sibling, acting alone as a beneficiary — or even as a co-trustee — can arbitrarily retitle land that has been properly placed in a trust.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

The furniture seemed to have been dumped here arbitrarily, having served its purpose in another part of the house.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill