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Recent Examples of randomness
In their new paper, Bach and Huiberts relied on even more randomness in their algorithm to show that runtimes are guaranteed to be significantly lower than what had previously been established.
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Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Co-written by Bentley with Greg Kwedar (the primary creative team behind ‘Sing Sing’), ‘Train Dreams’ thrives on its philosophical inquiries into the earthly randomness of events that make up a life.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025
Differential privacy introduces controlled noise or randomness to datasets, obscuring individual details while maintaining collective patterns.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
When their calls were compared against everything from squirrel monkey chatter to melodies by the Beatles, their songs showed a balance of randomness and order that suggests style, not just repertoire, matters for communication.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
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Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Co-written by Bentley with Greg Kwedar (the primary creative team behind ‘Sing Sing’), ‘Train Dreams’ thrives on its philosophical inquiries into the earthly randomness of events that make up a life.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025
Differential privacy introduces controlled noise or randomness to datasets, obscuring individual details while maintaining collective patterns.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
When their calls were compared against everything from squirrel monkey chatter to melodies by the Beatles, their songs showed a balance of randomness and order that suggests style, not just repertoire, matters for communication.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for randomness
Noun
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The Change Agent leads with resilience, embraces uncertainty and helps teams move confidently through transformation.—
Kelly Jones,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The vast majority of recent prediction markets growth has come from sports betting, a category that has come online only recently due to legal uncertainty.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The researchers believe their findings could eventually help not only soldiers but also civilians suffering from severe muscle trauma due to car accidents, sports injuries, or natural disasters.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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These incidents are most often natural, resulting from heart attacks or medical emergencies, but more rarely can be the result of accidents, suicide or violence.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Uncovering a Speedster with a little over 13,000 miles on the odometer in an estate sale is automotive fortuity.—
Austin Irwin,
Car and Driver,
13 Sep. 2021
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But after a while, realizing that in-person services remained a long way off, the group resumed meeting online, playing recordings of communal singing to which members could add their voices and sharing songs in advance to compensate for the loss of fortuity.—
Philissa Cramer,
sun-sentinel.com,
16 Sep. 2020
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Rather, the slow start (by Ovechkin’s standards) to this season seemed due more to poor puck luck.—
Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
6 Nov. 2025
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The team dealt with some tough injury luck and never got on a roll.—
Aaliyan Mohammed,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Randomness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/randomness. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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