random sample
Example Sentences
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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 pilot, which was carried out by the Public Sector Fraud Authority, the Home Office and HMRC, matched a random sample of 200,000 child benefit records with international travel data.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
In testing blood samples collected from a random sample of 63 adult blood donors, the researchers found that antibodies resulting from a previous infection of swine flu also reacted to the N1 protein in H5N1.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
The survey was not given to a random sample of transgender people, so it cannot be interpreted as representative of the transgender population as a whole.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Actually, they generally poll a larger number than is theoretically necessary to compensate for problems associated with getting a random sample.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
