as in uncertainty
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Recent Examples of randomness
But those odds have subsequently been redistributed, introducing more randomness than ever before (especially with 16 teams in the mix, instead of 14).
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
2 June 2026
There isn’t much small-sample randomness anymore.
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Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
Rain works through a different mechanism — the randomness of raindrops creates a pink noise pattern the brain processes more easily than white noise, associated with better sleep and reduced anxiety.
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Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 May 2026
The randomness of the arrests means that anyone could be a target.
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Gaby Del Valle,
The Verge,
29 May 2026
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
2 June 2026
There isn’t much small-sample randomness anymore.
—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
Rain works through a different mechanism — the randomness of raindrops creates a pink noise pattern the brain processes more easily than white noise, associated with better sleep and reduced anxiety.
—
Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 May 2026
The randomness of the arrests means that anyone could be a target.
—
Gaby Del Valle,
The Verge,
29 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for randomness
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Adding to the uncertainty, Congress allowed Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire last year, which caused insurance premiums to spike for millions more people.
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This work of checking in on team members or translating ambiguity, especially during periods of uncertainty, has been dubbed the empathy or care tax.
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Eiglarsh added that while the suffering of the families was evident throughout the trial, the defense successfully argued that the crash was a tragic accident.
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Was fatal boat crash just an accident — or was Pino reckless?
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Uncovering a Speedster with a little over 13,000 miles on the odometer in an estate sale is automotive fortuity.
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Billy was born in 1910 in a Lower East Side tenement and raised as a teenager in Bayside, Queens, in what seemed like an age of infinite fortuity.
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The group of death in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers wasn’t enough, because in Egypt’s next attempt to reach the finals in 2006, their luck put them in a group with Didier Drogba’s Ivory Coast and Samuel Eto’o’s Cameroon.
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In retrospect, the result looks less like luck than like a compounding advantage.
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“Randomness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/randomness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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