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 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
A completely unscientific random sample suggested Kemi Badenoch was the local favourite.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2024
The Gallup poll interviewed a random sample of 1,016 adults from across the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 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
