arbitrarily divide

Frequency: 6.01.5 per million words

Used when separating a whole into parts without following a logical or fair method.

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  • The colonial powers would often arbitrarily divide territories, ignoring ethnic and cultural boundaries.
  • The manager was criticized for how he arbitrarily divided the budget among the departments.
  • To save time, the coach decided to arbitrarily divide the players into two teams.
  • In this mathematical proof, we first arbitrarily divide the line segment into n equal parts.
  • The will seemed to arbitrarily divide the estate, which led to a legal challenge from the family.
  • You can't just arbitrarily divide the work; you have to consider everyone's individual skills.
  • The ancient kingdom was arbitrarily divided by the conquerors, causing decades of conflict.
  • Arbitrarily dividing the students by their height was not a fair way to form project groups.
  • A good algorithm doesn't arbitrarily divide the data; it uses specific criteria for classification.
  • Philosophers caution against trying to arbitrarily divide human consciousness into neat categories.