How to Use stochastic in a Sentence

stochastic

adjective
  • And now the reason this stochastic formulation makes sense is that things happen by chance sometimes.
    — quantamagazine.org, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Statistics and the stochastic parroting of human text are at play.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The scalding becomes a metaphor for stochastic violence.
    — Seamus Sullivan september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The stochastic nature of LLMs cannot be engineered away.
    — Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • We were not born to stand astride thin wedges of composite material on a turbulently stochastic ocean.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2022
  • And there's a reading based on the stochastic oscillator that is an actual overbought reading.
    — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Other than those lovely sketch moments, the following stochastic famous-guy interactions ruled late night this week.
    — Vulture, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Nonetheless, Hinton thinks the work lays to rest the question of whether LLMs are stochastic parrots.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This phenomenon is driven by stochastic processes, which are ever-present in a highly random market.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • But in the valley, a whole bunch of new stochastic mutations are likely to be high performers against the immune system and living conditions of the ferret.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The uptrend line would be a natural place for the stock to stabilize, noting the stochastic oscillator is deep in oversold territory.
    — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Lee and Vempala’s paper introduced Chen to the idea of stochastic localization.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But their conviction suggests that, in a stochastic world, medical information fosters a feeling of agency.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Call it stochastic terrorism, ordered through the public channels of the Internet rather than through hidden networks, deniable even when its true causes are as plain as day.
    — Justin E. H. Smith, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The team used the standard machine learning technique of stochastic gradient descent to iteratively improve the two networks.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
  • Elowitz’s team is now examining the role stochastic gene expression plays in stem cells, undifferentiated cells that give rise to the different tissues in our bodies.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2014
  • First, the team observed stochastic fluctuations in the output voltage over time, and confirmed that the device could naturally switch between different states.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026
  • At that point the amount of churn will be due to stochastic processes, rather than expected shifts in individual life status due to mismatch between human capital and social status.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2012
  • This is because LLMs are stochastic (random) in nature unlike a deterministic piece of software.
    — Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Just as importantly, these systems should be tolerant of the stochastic nature of ML by designing for variability.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • In this regime, both the average protein level and the magnitude of stochastic fluctuations remain stable, even under changing conditions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In her writing, Rooney brings torturous precision to her depiction of Marianne and Connell’s stochastic courtship.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2020
  • While the stochastic oscillator is overbought, as long as its reading remains above 80%, the bullish signals from MACD take precedence.
    — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That was just a proof of concept for the team; the stochastic siren method could really come into its own over the next six years, as sensitivity increases and scientists can tighten the constraints on the Hubble constant.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The research is an important step in identifying how and why people can become radicalized online by what has been termed stochastic terrorism, in which hate speech is used to incite violent acts, Burghardt said.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Their model shows that noise can be reduced to a fundamental physical limit defined by stochastic molecular processes, characterized by a Fano factor of 1.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The game ostensibly hinges on chance due to its reliance on dice, but in actuality, Chutes and Ladders is a stochastic system called an absorbing Markov chain, meaning just a portion of the system contains randomness.
    — Leila Sloman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The monthly stochastic oscillator remains in overbought territory ( > 80%), underscoring the strength of the prevailing bullish trend rather than signaling exhaustion.
    — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2025
  • One reason hinges on the fact that for over the past 30 years or so, macroeconomic models are neo-Keynesian extensions of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models.
    — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • By building circuits whose states naturally fluctuate with this environmental heat, thermodynamic computing turns an otherwise stochastic and chaotic feature of nature into an incredibly fast, ultra-low-energy calculator.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026

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