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
  • Fleetwood Mac somehow managed to merge their often chaotic and almost operatic personal lives into their own tale in real-time, which then became legend.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The snippets of him so far are entertainingly chaotic.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Prepare to bid that unorganized pile of shoes goodbye!
    Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Virginia Baptists joined the fight in droves. Baptists, Catholics and Jews were not put off by any of the Revolution’s radical deists: a mostly unorganized group of religious thinkers who believed in God and reason, but not revelation or miracles.
    Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Yes, the Niners were so disorganized that they were called for a 12-man penalty, which wiped out an end-zone interception.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Southwestern Atlantic: An area of low pressure is near the northern Bahamas, bringing disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Some states are in line with certain federal practices, and then some states are doing a bunch of incoherent, illogical things.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There’s no shortage of accessible documentation showing the 78-year-old’s slide from strategically unpredictable to perilously incoherent.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024

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“Unordered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unordered. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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