arbitrarily divide
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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.