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- noun Common misspelling of
arbitrary .
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Examples
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The penalty for going over their abitrary level is surprisingly unimaginative, but for T-Mobile I guess it is the best they can manage.
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The penalty for going over their abitrary level is surprisingly unimaginative, but for T-Mobile I guess it is the best they can manage.
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They are abitrary boundary conditions defining the set of objects in the world to which an element of language may refer.
Eminent Domain, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If order & calmness are the lead criteria in “aesthetically pleasing”, then Snooker is an OCD dream – the table starts with the balls arranged in balanced perfection, then one of the players takes a whack at them and causes a great big mess, and then they spend half an hour cleaning them all up by following an abitrary yet poetic ruleset.
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There is – but they will NOT recognise it so “simplified” spelling will be just as abitrary to them as the current.
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But magazines and other journalistic enterprises would be crazy to buy into the notion that abitrary etiquette of American campaigns (which encourages candidates to lie baldly, and surrogates to spin and smarm and swift-boat, while prohibiting frank talk to a host of issues from race to religion to terror itself), should govern their decisions.
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Why should this principle extend from child rearing and suddenly stop at the abitrary border of an artifical construct like a nation state?
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There is – but they will NOT recognise it so “simplified” spelling will be just as abitrary to them as the current.
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A bit abitrary, but at least I have fewer M names.
Thinking of the reader: a post for writers generally Glenda Larke 2007
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I do think in some cases a PhD can be an abitrary degree- both when it is given and when it is not.
What's a PhD Worth? 2006
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