randomly
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2.4
- adverb
- /ˈrændəmli/
:
aleatoriamente
- Half of the participants were randomly selected to complete the task in the recording condition first.
- randomly selected
- randomly assigned
- randomly selected participants
I think, let's say you and I randomly took a word.
- I think, let's say you and I randomly took a word.
- So you're not randomly guessing at what you want to do.
- You could have some faulty hard drives that randomly erase various things.
- I just roam the lands randomly, killing things.
- But if he chooses randomly, then like I'm, I'm out of luck.
- It'll just, yeah, back and forth randomly when it works out.
- When those waves arrive at the source, the source randomly picks one.
Examples
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I randomly chose a book from the shelf to read during my lunch break.
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So just one day randomly, I quit drinking.
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Now that only happens randomly in individual trees.
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Another tip is to randomly change the subject a lot.
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In addition, a few other participants would be randomly selected and tested for drug use.
Academic text (1990) -
One half of the sample was randomly selected to receive the ATL items first.
Academic text (1999) -
Teachers and administrators in 14 randomly selected schools in Ankara made up the sample group.
Academic text (2011) -
We recruited participants from the emergency department waiting room during randomly selected 6-hour blocks of time.
Academic text (2011) -
You could have some faulty hard drives that randomly erase various things.
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At the festival, guests were randomly assigned to different activities to promote interaction.
Synonyms
66
2.3
Happening without planning or intending
48
4.4
To act naturally without planning or being forced
44
2.7
By chance, without any plan or order
27
5.5
In a way that has no clear reason or plan
22
6.7
Doing things without careful choice or noticing differences
13
6.4
In a way that is not regular or easy to predict
12
4.9
In many different directions in a messy, random way
9
6.1
In a way that is not planned or organized
4
4.8
In a way you cannot guess before it happens
4
4.2
Happens at different times and not in a steady way
1
8.2
In a random, messy way without a plan
In a way that uses random chance to choose results
Antonyms
How Random
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word randomly grew from an old idea of quick movement without a plan, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of ran — like things that 'run' around with no set path. So to do something randomly is to do it 'without a specific pattern or order'.