How to Use randomness in a Sentence

randomness

noun
  • The randomness feels like a wicked game of chance.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • To do this, the team turned to a notion of randomness called spread.
    Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
  • There is still a lot of randomness to where the worst outbreaks occur.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Because of the short run of each pastry, there’s a bit of randomness — and risk.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
  • There’s a randomness to sports careers that is rarely discussed.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2021
  • But Sega’s title has more going for it with a dose of randomness.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The randomness of the disaster has left locals in a state of shock.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • All that many people could initially see was the brute randomness of death.
    ABC News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The randomness of the arrests means that anyone could be a target.
    Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 May 2026
  • These are good teams whose talent has been snuffed out thanks to the randomness of the postseason.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The virtue of this method is that order and randomness can coexist.
    Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2017
  • The randomness of the attacks, and the fury behind them, have shaken the city.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The randomness only grew when two more teams were added in 2012.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Some key steps in the team’s original approach had used randomness.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Thus, in many cases, there's an extreme randomness in the hiring process.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The template would later act as an island of structure in an ocean of randomness.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Once the summonses are sent, the process loses its randomness.
    Harry Weller, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2025
  • This time, Survivor’s randomness is working out for her.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 May 2026
  • The scale and randomness of the violence sent shock waves across Belgium and the world.
    Monika Pronczuk, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
  • There isn’t much small-sample randomness anymore.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • And in a new study, researchers describe a new way to amplify that randomness.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 27 May 2026
  • Mao devised a new way to solve the shortest-paths problem without randomness.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
  • There is a lot of randomness and irreverence in these choices, too.
    Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes murder goes up or down because of randomness in the share of shootings that proved to be fatal.
    Jeff Asher, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Yet the randomness of dice is an orderly kind of randomness, much less messy than that of real events.
    Kelly Clancy, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
  • But the true question is lurking within the randomness alongside it.
    Peter Hall, Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Some of it is the randomness of life in the algorithm era, and some of it was specific to this show and that moment.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Why so many winning teams fail to protect leads is another matter, but the randomness of the three does keep clubs alive longer.
    Dallas News, 6 June 2022
  • When lots of events occur at the same time, our minds attempt to put the jumble in an order based on reason rather than randomness.
    Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2022
  • But being open to randomness isn’t the same thing as not working hard, which becomes clear as the next idea comes into focus.
    Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025

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