unordered

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Recent Examples of unordered Part handling in warehouse automation is challenging if a large variety of items must be accommodated and items are stored in unordered piles. Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017 The technique, known as brushing, involves fake packages that appear to come from Amazon or other companies, where boxes of unordered items are delivered to your doorstep. Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024 This expanded the cursory support for numbered and unordered lists and checkboxes to the big items, like headlines, italics, bold, strikethrough, and links. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024 Some scholars assume—or hope—that an unordered world will sort itself out on its own, that great powers will carve out stable spheres of influence and avoid conflict or that the spread of international commerce and enlightened ideas will naturally maintain global peace and prosperity. Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022 Enlarge Anas Photography Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order. Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2023 And Ha, along with fellow computer scientist Yujin Tang, recently designed a model that could intentionally send large amounts of data through a transformer in a random, unordered way, mimicking how the human body transmits sensory observations to the brain. Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022 Michigan’s Chief medical executive, Joneigh Khaldun, said late Friday the number of unordered doses offers only a single-day snapshot, noting the federal government had deposited a large number of doses in the state’s account in anticipation of their later use at a mass vaccination site. Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2021 Its pages adopt the structure of unordered lists—uniform and sturdy. Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unordered
Adjective
  • These chaotic phases serve a crucial purpose that is easy to miss in the moment.
    Ginni Saraswati, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Witnesses described to the Free Press a chaotic scene inside the store as shoppers scrambled to evade the man.
    John Wisely, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • These are often signs that the company is unorganized, unclear on its hiring process, or not fully aligned internally.
    Adunola Adeshola, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Bathrooms that appear messy or unorganized often have products in them that don't belong in a bathroom.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • If your closet or the underneath of your bed is a disorganized mess of mismatched shoes, take this as your sign to get a shoe rack.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, in the Gulf, a surface trough in the north-central Gulf is associated with a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • So the characterization this time around is at least better than the almost incoherent narrative from the first game.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • As commentators have pointed out, many of Tolstoy’s ideas about economics and politics are shallow, even incoherent.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025

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“Unordered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unordered. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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