How to Use randomness in a Sentence
randomness
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To do this, the team turned to a notion of randomness called spread.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
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The randomness of the attacks, and the fury behind them, have shaken the city.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2024
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The scale and randomness of the violence sent shock waves across Belgium and the world.
—Monika Pronczuk, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
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The randomness only grew when two more teams were added in 2012.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
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There is still a lot of randomness to where the worst outbreaks occur.
—Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2021
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The randomness gives the pumpkins their sense of whimsy.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
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These are good teams whose talent has been snuffed out thanks to the randomness of the postseason.
—Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2021
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But what happens next is subject to a lot of randomness.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
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The virtue of this method is that order and randomness can coexist.
—Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2017
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Before the game, Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer was asked about the randomness of a make-or-miss league.
—Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 12 July 2021
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Arnold told me that the most worrying thing about debris was the randomness: a fleck could come from anywhere, at any time.
—Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
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There’s a randomness to sports careers that is rarely discussed.
—Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2021
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All that many people could initially see was the brute randomness of death.
—ABC News, 11 Sep. 2021
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Once the summonses are sent, the process loses its randomness.
—Harry Weller, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2025
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There’s still the randomness of Covid-19 cases, injuries and weather which could all add to fatigue.
—Steve Price, Forbes, 24 June 2021
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Thus, in many cases, there's an extreme randomness in the hiring process.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2023
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The template would later act as an island of structure in an ocean of randomness.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
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Advertisement There is a sense of randomness to this journey, but Hardy’s oddball charm and a great soundtrack go a long way to smooth the bumps in the road.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
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Sometimes murder goes up or down because of randomness in the share of shootings that proved to be fatal.
—Jeff Asher, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
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But for a second straight match the United States never scored, opening the door for the game to be taken over by randomness and penalty kicks.
—Candace Buckner, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
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When lots of events occur at the same time, our minds attempt to put the jumble in an order based on reason rather than randomness.
—Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2022
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Why so many winning teams fail to protect leads is another matter, but the randomness of the three does keep clubs alive longer.
—Dallas News, 6 June 2022
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Even Locke in a wheelchair reading about sweat lodges in a public library would have made more sense than this randomness.
—Michael Alan Connelly, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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The book’s charming freedom comes from this randomness.
—Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
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But that variety and that clear pull for visitors to leave something behind was so present in the randomness of the display in front of me.
—courier-journal.com, 2 June 2021
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The randomness of the ride combined with the desire to get the highest score encourages guests to go on it again which, of course, means passing through the gift shop at the exit one more time.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
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Yet the randomness of dice is an orderly kind of randomness, much less messy than that of real events.
—Kelly Clancy, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
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This truly does make sense: shotmaking can have a big degree of randomness to it.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 May 2022
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The new approach combines a little knowledge of the bookshelf’s past contents with the surprising power of randomness.
—Steve Nadis, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2025
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But Wrigley was such an extreme pitcher’s park last year — something that appeared to be more about randomness and the wind blowing in at an extreme rate than a real trend — that Busch was just one of many Cubs to suffer at home.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
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