How to Use randomness in a Sentence

randomness

noun
  • The idea there is to use randomness to obscure personal information in large data sets.
    Andrew Imbrie, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2022
  • As our own research shows, poor randomness is a widespread security problem.
    Nadia Heninger, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2013
  • To do this, the team turned to a notion of randomness called spread.
    Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The randomness of the attacks, and the fury behind them, have shaken the city.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The scale and randomness of the violence sent shock waves across Belgium and the world.
    Monika Pronczuk, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The randomness only grew when two more teams were added in 2012.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • There is still a lot of randomness to where the worst outbreaks occur.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The randomness gives the pumpkins their sense of whimsy.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
  • These are good teams whose talent has been snuffed out thanks to the randomness of the postseason.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2021
  • But what happens next is subject to a lot of randomness.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The virtue of this method is that order and randomness can coexist.
    Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s a randomness to sports careers that is rarely discussed.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2021
  • All that many people could initially see was the brute randomness of death.
    ABC News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • There’s still the randomness of Covid-19 cases, injuries and weather which could all add to fatigue.
    Steve Price, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Thus, in many cases, there's an extreme randomness in the hiring process.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The template would later act as an island of structure in an ocean of randomness.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The book’s charming freedom comes from this randomness.
    Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This truly does make sense: shotmaking can have a big degree of randomness to it.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 May 2022
  • The randomness of teams week-to-week and play-to-play make predictions a practice in futility.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2022
  • And then there are some places where the randomness is so much a part of the story that there’s more or less nothing data is going to tell you, except that there’s a bunch of noise.
    Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Then, the computer would appear to make something original and new by adding in a touch of randomness.
    Patricia Fancher, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024

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