random sample
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Anthony Cheetham and Ram Seshadri went through a random sample of the supposed new crystals.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
He says his office reviewed a random sample of 220 claims and found 398 violations of state law in roughly half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The first thing is, if you're going to have a random sample of people deliberating, you need to have a good random sample.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2025
For comparison, they also analyzed a random sample of Medicaid recipients who had no records in the child welfare system.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Surprisingly, however, a random sample of 747 death notices published in Salt Lake City, Utah, newspapers during 1977 indicated that 46 percent of the decedents surveyed died within the three- month period following their birthdays.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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