be arbitrary
Example Sentences
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He told BBC Scotland News he had concerns that it could be arbitrary, inflexible and in some cases "very difficult to establish with any great degree of certainty".
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Experts say raising awareness and changing policy around things like expiration dates on food packaging, which can be arbitrary, would help, too.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2023
Even that date may be arbitrary, but by the late fifth century, traditional Roman authority had ceased to be the basis of political power in much of western Europe.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
He also asserts that Twitter’s process for calculating its user numbers “appears to be arbitrary and ad hoc.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2022
An objection to this reasoning instantly rises from a denial of the notion, that any thing can be arbitrary, in which such a limited being as man is concerned.
