[
UK
/ˌɑːbɪtɹˈɛɹəli/
]
[ US /ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹɛɹəɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹɛɹəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a random manner
bullets were fired into the crowd at random
the houses were randomly scattered
How To Use arbitrarily In A Sentence
- This isn't a rhetorical question but one that, again, would help show whether they're applying this rule fairly or arbitrarily.
- The lower limits of normal for serum uric acid are arbitrarily defined and may vary from one lab to another.
- This is an awesome power that, even when exercised arbitrarily, will be immune from judicial review.
- Sometimes I think he arbitrarily disagrees with me just to be contrary.
- Such activity is closer to tax avoision, where avoidance shades into evasion, than are the government-sponsored schemes which are now to be arbitrarily chopped back.
- No longer must we rely on our clumsy thumbs to arbitrarily slam derailleurs into the proper speed.
- I see people in libraries and archives and Family History Centres, obsessed with finding traces of family in microform, in scraps of paper, officially, and sometimes arbitrarily, preserved for posterity.
- The one I drank while bathrobed and slippered in my front yard, holding the plunger that had been arbitrarily left standing beside my mail box overnight. Yard Sailing
- They made plans to write a joint paper on splitting fields of division algebras, which was to contain an example showing that the degree of a minimal splitting field can be arbitrarily large.
- The fashion industry gets away with planned obsolescence all the time by arbitrarily declaring clothes we just bought as having the trendsetting equivalent of a steam powered toaster.