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
Zorina Khan, author of “Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes and the Knowledge Economy,” said in an email that her research found “that prize systems tend to be arbitrary and inefficient.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 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
The Constituent Assembly had on principle repudiated the tax on the gross income, much favoured under the ancien r�gime, which everybody had felt to be arbitrary and oppressive.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
