How to Use randomize in a Sentence

randomize

verb

• The numbers have been randomized.
• A randomized study of patients treated with the drug showed it to be effective.
• Services like Twitter, by contrast, randomize the URLs of posts so they can't be guessed.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 12 Jan. 2021
• Speaking strictly as a fan, randomizing the entire top 14 would turn lottery night into one of the wildest nights of the NBA year.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• The answers are then anonymized, randomized, and rated by a panel of hiring managers to prevent any bias.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 May 2023
• Many other systems, like melting ice, randomize the same way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
• Swift revealed the first eight tracks (at midnight, naturally) with the help of a bingo-ball cage to randomize which track names get announced when.
  — Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
• The pulses are also randomized, which is a huge reason why the results are so dramatic.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
• Ballot order is randomized in every race, as research shows a slight advantage for names at the top or bottom of a list.
  — John Myers, latimes.com, 9 June 2018
• Half were randomized to receive zuranolone, while the other half got a placebo.
  — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
• There’s also an adjustable auto-timeout to lock the drive, randomize its touch-screen layout, and secure-erase the drive to wipe out all passwords and the encryption key.
  — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Study participants were randomized to receive both doses in one arm or the second dose in the opposite arm.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• Lilly’s phase 2 trial looked at 338 adults who were obese or overweight and were randomized to receive a placebo or one of four dosages of retatrutide.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 26 June 2023
• The trial will be randomized, meaning that some subjects will be given placebos, Schacker said.
  — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2020
• Between generating images, tap the number in the top center of the screen to randomize the seed, which is a number that partially guides the generation of the image.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2022
• Her study, like the University of Michigan's, is a randomized, controlled trial — one group of women got to use VR headsets while others didn't.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 8 Sep. 2019
• Insofar as randomized, controlled trials for diet can be done, many have been.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
• In one part of the test, several thousand patients who had no portal account were randomized so that some received a telephone call reminder and others did not.
  — Lola Butcher, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• Brigham Health is conducting further randomized controlled trials to test the at-home model for a broader range of diagnoses.
  — Michelle Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• First, since the antibodies are in limited supply, states such as Colorado have set up a system to randomize who gets doses if supply runs short.
  — Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2020
• A key issue that has dogged randomized controlled trials of MDMA and other mind-altering drugs is how to minimize bias.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2017
• Another less intrusive option would be to require CEOs to randomize their trades.
  — M. Todd Henderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
• In this randomized controlled clinical trial, the patients were assigned to either a high onion diet (consisting of raw red onion) or a low onion diet.
  — Health.com, 22 June 2018
• There’s a survival mode, along with daily challenges that randomize the Ravenii encounters, in case repeating the same five objectives (rescue X civilians, kill Y Ravenii) across the same half-dozen maps in the campaign isn’t enough for you.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2018
• The new therapies were tested in a multi-drug, randomized, controlled trial conducted on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak since November.
  — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2019
• Also, instead of simply randomizing the entire starting set, Nightfall uses a drafting mechanic: each player draws four of the draft cards, keeps one and passes the rest.
  — Jonathan H. Liu, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2011
• Seven of the studies were randomized controlled trials, a type considered to be the gold standard in scientific research.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, PEOPLE.com, 17 July 2017
• Regardless, just as with casino gambling, Lee wants games with these kinds of randomized in-game purchases restricted to purchasers and players 21 or older.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2017
• Previously only available on the desktop and CTV experiences, this feature gives users the ability to randomize the first episode that plays for select series on the platform.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
• And the American system has a singular feature, life tenure for federal judges, that slows down and randomizes their rotation.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024