stochastic

Example Sentences

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Like other group behaviors, traffic exhibits statistical and stochastic patterns, with variations summed over vast regularity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

But I think that, in a world of vigilantism and stochastic terror, it is not just bad for speech qua speech, but for governance qua governance.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2025

“Each population is small and highly susceptible to stochastic events, especially wildfire,” notes a five-year status review for the frogs released last month by the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024

The study 'Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation' has been published in Nature Aging.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2024

However, economics has some purely stochastic models of itself too.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas