randomly

adverb

Definition of randomlynext
as in casually
without definite aim, direction, rule, or method the winner will be randomly chosen from among all of the entries

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Recent Examples of randomly The lottery said scratch-off tickets are distributed randomly, so neither the lottery nor retailers know where winning tickets will be sold until a prize is claimed. — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 Matos is wanted in the fatal shooting of Chrys Carvajal, a 19-year-old National Guardsman who is believed to have been randomly gunned down over the Fourth of July weekend in 2021, the FBI said. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 Mothers joined the research project during the first or second trimester and were randomly assigned to one of two groups. — Catherine Demers, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026 The researchers will then randomly choose around 1/3 of people who submitted a lone star tick, another 1/3 of people who submitted a black legged tick and 1/3 of people who submitted a positive alpha-gal tick to the laboratory. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026 Half will be randomly assigned to take Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, according to a press release issued yesterday. — Elaine Chen, STAT, 14 Oct. 2026 Duffin presented new data from Lilly’s Surmount V clinical trial, which randomly assigned more than 700 adults who were overweight but did not have diabetes to use either tirzepatide or semaglutide for 72 weeks. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 Using letters randomly drawn from a bag, players take turns placing words on a 15x15 board, earning points for the total value of the letters. — Sean McGowan, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Researchers randomly assigned each wrist to receive a saline hydrodissection procedure, a corticosteroid injection alone, or hydrodissection plus a steroid shot. — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for randomly
  1. casually
  2. anyway
  3. erratically
  4. informally
  5. accidentally
  6. haphazardly
  7. irregularly
  8. aimlessly
Adverb
  • Scammers can lift voice samples from videos people casually post on platforms like Instagram and TikTok.
    — Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As a result, Stiltz’s observations lean toward glib rather than casually profound.
    — Harry Thorfinn-George, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of casually
Adverb
  • The music also acknowledges that this is a riff on Vertigo, in which the initial person was a persona anyway.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2026
  • But debt rose anyway, from 24% of GDP in 2009 to nearly 80% last year.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of anyway
Adverb
  • Court documents read that O'Neal Flemming was recently acting erratically and was believed to have been experiencing a mental health crisis.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • On rare occasions, electromagnetic noise or external magnetic fields can make magnetic-switch keyboards act erratically around other electronics, as seen in the video below.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of erratically
Adverb
  • And Jeremy Allen White is Jeff Horwitz, the Wall Street Journal tech reporter with whom Haugen collaborates on an explosive series of articles informally titled The Facebook Files, exposing the toxic culture behind the company’s stratospheric reach.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Much of this is processed informally, where workers can be exposed to toxic substances while recovering valuable metals such as gold and silver.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of informally
Adverb
  • And one of the league's small market owners accidentally admitted that baseball is more profitable than one of the most famously lucrative industries on planet earth.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • With the audience already erupting in laughter, Magliano dug in her heels, poking fun at the United States’ strict broadcasting rules after Gillis accidentally dropped the F-bomb during a sketch.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of accidentally
Adverb
  • And even though his signature coalition of the willing, the Board of Peace, has potential, it was thrown together haphazardly.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Each of the nine beauty favorites below can be haphazardly thrown from your vanity into your bag and through TSA.
    — ElleAnna Revell, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of haphazardly
Adverb
  • Magyar said his administration would retain Orbán-era immigration and asylum policies, including escorting migrants who entered irregularly back across the southern border into Serbia.
    — Justin Spike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Renderings show a brown building and a white building that are irregularly shaped and accented with colorful murals and awnings.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of irregularly
Adverb
  • The Nuggets had aimlessly wandered through the non-Nikola Jokic minutes for years without a firm identity to survive them.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2026
  • My fork hovered aimlessly over the plate while my eyes stayed fixed on the entrance.
    — Mayur Chauhan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of aimlessly

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“Randomly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/randomly. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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