nonrandom

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Recent Examples of nonrandom Problem after problem turned out to be far easier to solve with randomness than with nonrandom, or deterministic, algorithms. Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023 Proofs of quantum advantage always seemed dependent on oracles that had some kind of nonrandom structure, such as periodicity. Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2022 And that nonrandom peptide could by chance have some function in a growing proto-cell. Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2022 Moderna’s clinical trial included a relatively small, nonrandom group of people who received only a single dose. Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2021 In 21 states, the survey is based on roughly 1,000 interviews conducted online and by phone of respondents drawn from a random sample, as well as roughly 3,000 interviews conducted online of a nonrandom or nonprobability sample. Brian McGill, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022 Over the next 40 years, computer scientists worked to figure out nonrandom recipes for arranging bits that approached the random ideal. Quanta Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021 He was born with VACTERL (a nonrandom association of birth defects). Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2021 The samples are small and nonrandom; participants are often recruited through internet postings or word of mouth. Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonrandom
Adjective
  • Dependency Analysis And Risk Assessment: Carry out a systematic evaluation of your domain strategy.
    Daniel Strauss, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • For almost five decades, Iran has been run as a police state, where fear, surveillance, and systematic human rights abuses are tools of governance and methods of regime survival.
    Ruth Marks Eglash, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • The ideal scenario would be an orderly shift within NATO toward a stronger Europe that would take about a decade, said Camille Grand, distinguished policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and a former NATO assistant secretary general.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 June 2025
  • In Families Like Ours, the slowly rising North Sea forces Denmark to follow Holland’s example and—in an orderly and civilized manner—evacuate the entire country.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • On moderately difficult tasks, SR models' methodical approach gave them an edge.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
  • Trump has demonstrated little interest in adopting a more deliberate, methodical approach to negotiations or to recalibrating his means to meet more achievable ends.
    Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025

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“Nonrandom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrandom. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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