random

satunnainen, sattumanvarainen A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
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Counsels, when they fly / At random, sometimes hit most happily.

O, many a shaft, at random sent, / Finds mark the archer little meant!

they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with grete raundon

For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force.

Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random.

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The flip of a fair coin is purely random.

The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.

The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.

Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.

A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased.

The rand function generates a random number from a seed.

A random American off the street couldnt tell the difference.''

That was a completely random comment.

The teachers bartending story was interesting, but random.''

The narrative takes a random course.

Youre so random!''