randomize
verb
ran·dom·ize
ˈran-də-ˌmīz 
randomized; randomizing
: to select, assign, or arrange in a random way
randomizer
noun
Examples of randomize in a Sentence
The numbers have been randomized.
A randomized study of patients treated with the drug showed it to be effective.
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The study was not randomized; it was designed to mimic how the test might perform in everyday medical practice.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
The set’s album sales were aided by its availability across 14 CD variants, all containing collectible paper ephemera, some randomized.
—Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 8 June 2025
Patients were randomized to get either the three-drug combination treatment or standard chemotherapy alone.
—NBC news, 30 May 2025
The system explores more of the solution space by a combination of randomizing the weight given to the memory of past solutions and by handing any seemingly non-optimal solutions on to new instances for additional evaluation.
—ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
The set’s album sales were aided by its availability across 14 CD variants, all containing collectible paper ephemera, some randomized.
—Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 8 June 2025
Patients were randomized to get either the three-drug combination treatment or standard chemotherapy alone.
—NBC news, 30 May 2025
The system explores more of the solution space by a combination of randomizing the weight given to the memory of past solutions and by handing any seemingly non-optimal solutions on to new instances for additional evaluation.
—ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025
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“Randomize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/randomize. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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randomize
verb
ran·dom·ize
ˈran-də-ˌmīz
randomized; randomizing
: to make random
shuffling randomizes playing cards
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