random sample
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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
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
The first scientists appear, as far as their religious beliefs are concerned, to be a more or less random sample of the intellectuals of seventeenth-century Europe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
