Idioms
See random in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee random in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishat random
- without deciding in advance what is going to happen, or without any regular pattern
- She opened the book at random (= not at any particular page) and started reading.
- The terrorists fired into the crowd at random.
- Names were chosen at random from a list.
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