INDISCRIMINATELY Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

indiscriminately

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as in arbitrarily

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Recent Examples of indiscriminately People get overexcited about the latest breakthrough and begin investing indiscriminately in the companies driving the innovation. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026 The suspect appeared to have fired indiscriminately at students in a classroom next to his own after leaving his Grade 9 classroom, Palencia said in a separate interview with local DZBB radio. — CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026 The organizations that succeed will not be those that slow adoption out of fear, nor those that automate indiscriminately. — Peter Smulovics, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026 But unlike David, this monstrous trio is designed to indiscriminately kill anyone and everyone in their path. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 However, the answer should not be to eliminate human contact indiscriminately. — Zain Khawaja, STAT, 24 Aug. 2026 In those animals, the clustered engram synapses were destroyed indiscriminately—just like every other synapse. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026 Flying over the battle, Ulf directs Silverwing's fire on both armies seemingly indiscriminately. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Julia Masli didn’t indiscriminately choose to employ seven ha’s in the title of her show. — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2026

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Adverb

The original 1971 experiment was conducted by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, who arbitrarily split volunteers into two groups—inmates and guards—and observed how power corrupted them.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Mykola Murskyj, senior adviser on policy and strategy at the nonprofit organization Razom for Ukraine, told the Washington Examiner that Zelensky isn’t just arbitrarily clinging to power — the entire country is wary of voting during wartime.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of arbitrarily

Adverb

Jasson Domínguez, still a liability on defense, carelessly let a leadoff single bounce past him and roll to the wall in right for a two-base error, but Cole managed to strand the runner at third and logged a scoreless frame.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Omar Alderete, O’Nien’s second-half replacement, carelessly did the same thing for the late winner.

— Stuart James, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of carelessly

Adverb

Huxley’s critique is clear; America mistakes body for spirit, promiscuously confusing the physical with the metaphysical.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
Political factions are steered by big personalities, and politicians jump promiscuously between parties.

— BEN BLAND, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024

Definition of promiscuously

Adverb

Permits that are granted and withdrawn capriciously, tax credits that come and go, technologies that fall in or out of favor in successive administrations, and endless legal battles all amount to dangerous barriers to investment.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
That standard would uphold the NCAA’s interpretation of the waiver rule so long as the NCAA didn’t act arbitrarily or capriciously, either of which is difficult to show.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 Jan. 2026

Definition of capriciously

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The researchers will then randomly choose around 1/3 of people who submitted a lone star tick, another 1/3 of people who submitted a black legged tick and 1/3 of people who submitted a positive alpha-gal tick to the laboratory.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026
Half will be randomly assigned to take Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, according to a press release issued yesterday.

— Elaine Chen, STAT, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of randomly

Adverb

Each of the nine beauty favorites below can be haphazardly thrown from your vanity into your bag and through TSA.

— ElleAnna Revell, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026
The absence of a living monarch on our money, or on our travel documents, was not an accident haphazardly arrived at but a declaration of equality meant to be flourished and displayed.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of haphazardly

Adverb

And Jeremy Allen White is Jeff Horwitz, the Wall Street Journal tech reporter with whom Haugen collaborates on an explosive series of articles informally titled The Facebook Files, exposing the toxic culture behind the company’s stratospheric reach.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Much of this is processed informally, where workers can be exposed to toxic substances while recovering valuable metals such as gold and silver.

— Aniruddha Ghosal, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

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