randomness
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It’s the branch of mathematics that analyzes randomness, uncertainty and the likelihood of certain outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Nutt said there was a "tragic randomness" and unpredictability to meningitis outbreaks.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
To see how robust this unusual state really was, the researchers altered the experiment by adding randomness to the driving sequence.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
“There’s an element of randomness to it,” said professor David Owen of UC Law San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025
I thought about this more often now that I was an adult, especially when people applauded me for my achievements, as if there weren’t a strange and cruel randomness to it all.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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