unordered

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Recent Examples of unordered Part handling in warehouse automation is challenging if a large variety of items must be accommodated and items are stored in unordered piles. Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017 The technique, known as brushing, involves fake packages that appear to come from Amazon or other companies, where boxes of unordered items are delivered to your doorstep. Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024 This expanded the cursory support for numbered and unordered lists and checkboxes to the big items, like headlines, italics, bold, strikethrough, and links. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024 Some scholars assume—or hope—that an unordered world will sort itself out on its own, that great powers will carve out stable spheres of influence and avoid conflict or that the spread of international commerce and enlightened ideas will naturally maintain global peace and prosperity. Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022 Enlarge Anas Photography Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order. Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2023 And Ha, along with fellow computer scientist Yujin Tang, recently designed a model that could intentionally send large amounts of data through a transformer in a random, unordered way, mimicking how the human body transmits sensory observations to the brain. Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022 Michigan’s Chief medical executive, Joneigh Khaldun, said late Friday the number of unordered doses offers only a single-day snapshot, noting the federal government had deposited a large number of doses in the state’s account in anticipation of their later use at a mass vaccination site. Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2021 Its pages adopt the structure of unordered lists—uniform and sturdy. Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unordered
Adjective
  • Reports Rakhimov, whose seat was in the back of the aircraft, continued describing the chaotic event, saying his body was hit.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
  • His new bride, the title character known as Ani (Mikey Madison), and his handlers spend much of the rest of the movie in pursuit, a chaotic chase that culminates at the Manhattan strip club where Ani dances.
    Daniel Arnold, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • This can mean undergoing a company-wide digital transformation to improve unorganized, outdated processes and products or adopting an open-ecosystem approach to better connect teams and organizations within the company.
    Walt Hearn, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The dominant party in each resulting district controls the primary, which becomes the election, where unorganized moderates either lack the numbers to compete or simply don’t participate.
    Jim Nowlan, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • How rude and inconsiderate can people be and even worse how disorganized at Aldi’s.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Another nightmarish situation for any CIO: A huge corporate investment in generative AI and data that is so disorganized that it cannot be used.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Excited delirium deaths in South Florida and across the country share commonalities: a sweating, agitated, incoherent man detached from reality — often high on cocaine or synthetic drugs — is restrained, sometimes aggressively, by police.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The audience follows her perspective across history to show that all of those seemingly incoherent mumblings sprinkled throughout the previous episodes can be strung together to form crucial clues about what comes later in the season.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024

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“Unordered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unordered. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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