arbitrarily

Example Sentences

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Some people had regained access to Facebook and YouTube, but the restrictions were patchy and arbitrarily applied across the country.

From BBC

In its 2021 report, the group said the companies took it upon themselves, with little public input, “to arbitrarily determine if and how they compensate families for their land.”

From Washington Post

Much like its young protagonist, the movie feels clumsy when trying too hard to provoke: one such sequence alternates rather arbitrarily between Lucas’s conversation with a priest and an anonymous hookup he has in Paris.

From New York Times

Other measures have broadened the definition of treason, giving authorities more leeway to use such charges more or less arbitrarily.

From New York Times

He adds that if key portions of history are removed this arbitrarily, then there would be "a void" in formal education.

From BBC