arbitrarily choose
Frequency: 7.02.5 per million words
Used when picking an option without a specific criterion or reason.
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Examples (10)
- The committee seemed to arbitrarily choose the winner without any clear criteria.
- For the experiment, a sample was arbitrarily chosen from the general population.
- Don't just arbitrarily choose a number; try to find a logical pattern.
- He would often arbitrarily choose a restaurant for dinner, surprising his friends every time.
- Why did you arbitrarily choose this topic for your presentation?
- If you arbitrarily choose stocks without research, you're more likely to lose money.
- The tyrant was known to arbitrarily choose people for punishment to instill fear.
- The software is designed to arbitrarily choose a starting player for the game.
- Arbitrarily choosing a direction, the lost hiker hoped to find a landmark.
- We can't just arbitrarily choose a solution; we need to analyze the data first.