as in random
lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern
your hit-or-miss schedule for taking your medication is going to land you in the hospital again
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as in randomly
without definite aim, direction, rule, or method
I was learning Spanish hit or miss, mostly just by hearing my friends speak it
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Recent Examples of hit-or-miss
Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Materials like memory foam can be hit-or-miss for edge support, especially depending on the firmness level involved.
—Julia Forbes, Wired News, 27 June 2025
Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
Apple Intelligence has a similar feature for iPhones called Summarize Notifications, but the feature has been hit or miss.
—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Not to mention the hit-or-miss vagaries of Electrify America chargers: one day everything works, the next day multiple chargers are down.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Materials like memory foam can be hit-or-miss for edge support, especially depending on the firmness level involved.
—Julia Forbes, Wired News, 27 June 2025
Adverb
Quality is hit or miss, and in lower-quality journals, pages are prone to falling out.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
Apple Intelligence has a similar feature for iPhones called Summarize Notifications, but the feature has been hit or miss.
—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hit-or-miss
Adjective
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The entertainment space has shown us that, as random as couples may seem, the best thing is to expect the unexpected.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
29 July 2025
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Training is a disciplined system, not a series of random workouts.—
Ludovic Gaudé,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
Adjective
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The Florida court contrived a weird and arbitrary compromise, granting new sentencing hearings only to death row prisoners whose sentences were considered final after 2002, when the U.S. court issued a decision that was a precursor to Hurst’s.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 July 2025
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Ultimately, Bae acknowledges, these classifications are somewhat arbitrary.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
26 July 2025
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Between unfamiliar foods, erratic routines, and stress, your digestive system ends up overloaded and under-supported.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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But the series has met fan derision, whether over Carrie’s often typically erratic emotional behavior (chiding Miranda for eating her yogurt?—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Hit-or-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hit-or-miss. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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