as in casually
without definite aim, direction, rule, or method
the winner will be randomly chosen from among all of the entries
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Recent Examples of randomly
On June 15, 2024, a 42-year-old Shelby Township man randomly opened fire on families at a Rochester Hills splash pad, leaving nine people injured.
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Detroit Free Press, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
These options let the computer randomly generate numbers for you.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Around the table, there were up to eight randomly placed Franka Panda robotic arms, each with 7 degrees of freedom, that were supposed to complete up to 40 tasks on a workpiece.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
In older games, that meant randomly cutting to a combat screen when bumping into an invisible creature, but newer ones like 2022’s Scarlet and Violet let users see Pokémon out in the wild.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
People were randomly assigned to take either personalized magnesium supplements or a placebo for 12 weeks.
—New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
Instead of collecting massive datasets randomly, deliberately oversample underrepresented scenarios—rare medical conditions, non-standard user behaviors or minority demographics.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
During the test, the robot successfully traverses randomly placed debris, ascends, and descends steps without difficulty.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
While there, the winner opted for Quick Pick, meaning a lottery machine randomly chose at least some of their ticket numbers, the Florida Lottery wrote on its website and in a news release.
—Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Detroit Free Press, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
These options let the computer randomly generate numbers for you.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Around the table, there were up to eight randomly placed Franka Panda robotic arms, each with 7 degrees of freedom, that were supposed to complete up to 40 tasks on a workpiece.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
In older games, that meant randomly cutting to a combat screen when bumping into an invisible creature, but newer ones like 2022’s Scarlet and Violet let users see Pokémon out in the wild.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
People were randomly assigned to take either personalized magnesium supplements or a placebo for 12 weeks.
—New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
Instead of collecting massive datasets randomly, deliberately oversample underrepresented scenarios—rare medical conditions, non-standard user behaviors or minority demographics.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
During the test, the robot successfully traverses randomly placed debris, ascends, and descends steps without difficulty.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
While there, the winner opted for Quick Pick, meaning a lottery machine randomly chose at least some of their ticket numbers, the Florida Lottery wrote on its website and in a news release.
—Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for randomly
Adverb
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Here guests can start their day with a quiet breakfast, return for a cocktail in the evening, or gather casually with locals.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
29 Sep. 2025
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Last November, the pair made headlines when Stewart lightly pushed Barrymore — who was casually petting her shoulder — away from her during a conversation about relationships on the latter's talk show.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The Dodgers felt comfortable enough with that knowledge to carry him on their Wild Card Series roster anyway.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
4 Oct. 2025
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But Obama recovered and was reelected anyway, albeit with a smaller margin of victory than four years earlier.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Neely had schizophrenia, was behaving erratically, high on drugs and threatening riders.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Health departments, clinics, pharmacies and even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are all scrambling to adapt to erratically changing directives.—
Pia Pannaraj,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Instrument for Charlie Parker, informally—three letters.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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And yet, their feedback—on things like new collections, events, and the state of the business—has often been confined to private gatherings, where collectors share their opinions amongst each other and, occasionally, with their brand hosts, but always informally.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Despite being the spontaneous, happy-go-lucky friend in the group chat, saying yes to a friend’s get-together could lead to you accidentally having to be in three places at once.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Midway through the third quarter, the three-time WNBA champion headed to the locker room after Sims accidentally stepped on her foot.—
Frank Nunns O'Connell,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Instead of haphazardly stuffing them into your nightstand drawer, place them in a whimsical Hay tin container.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
29 Sep. 2025
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Lots of fly-by-night import shops sprang up, happy to rubber-stamp any Mercedes with a catalytic converter haphazardly welded under the floorboards.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Both moons are irregularly shaped.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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Instead of letting our legs carry us aimlessly down the road with our minds interrogating every step, our thumbs pose too simple a question to which our smartphones are pleased to give us too simple an answer.—
Paul Greenberg,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Randomly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/randomly. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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