randomness

Example Sentences

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“There is a sort of randomness both from a political perspective and then in terms of market reactions to all of this.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Singapore is managed in a way that "excludes accident and randomness", he wrote in Singapore Songlines, his seminal essay on the city's rapid makeover.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 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

I guess the randomness suits a spoof where plot beats seem to have been decided by throwing darts at a board.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

The normal, predictable state of matter throughout the universe is randomness, a relaxed sort of equilibrium, with atoms and their particles scattered around in an amorphous muddle.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas