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Jumping in willy nilly is not going to help much, if at all.

A Situation Common to All 2008

The standard reaction to realizing that you need a vocabulary is to just make up words willy-nilly, which is dangerous and not very useful.

Everyone’s A Critic: An interview with Douglas Wolk, Part the first 2007

It lets you change the type of data stored in a given variable willy-nilly, which is not necessarily the best idea.

Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

Unless dogs are defecating willy-nilly in the kitchen among a staff with no hand-washing skills or the wait staff is interacting intimately with the dogs, such contagion would be nearly impossible.

Should we be more like the French and invite dogs to dinner? 2010

The missions and objectives were never clearly defined, and the self-parodying "search for WMD" in Iraq (lampooned by the president himself at a subsequent press dinner) was a willy-nilly adventure in comic relief -- to wit, Donald Rumsfeld's classic remark that "we know where they are: they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat."

Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny Randall Amster 2010

I think there's this perception that we're just sending in a whole bunch of strikes willy nilly.

Obama says he will help unemployed engineer find job during video 'hangout' 2012

No Universalist message will ever be wholly consistent, since Universalism contains that pesky strain of Intolerance, willy-nilly.

I can't quite put my finger on it. Roger Sutton 2009

All too often, though, especially in the United States, each new tool, gadget, or methodology is over-hyped by its proponents to the point that, initially, it tends to get either adopted willy-nilly or rejected out of hand.

May « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

Pister, an emeritus engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said "the rush to add automatic shutoff valves willy nilly is an ill-conceived response to this incident" because it could end up disrupting gas supplies and not improving safety.

PG&E Safety Culture Faulted, Panel Probing Blast Finds Russell Gold 2011

The missions and objectives were never clearly defined, and the self-parodying "search for WMD" in Iraq (lampooned by the president himself at a subsequent press dinner) was a willy-nilly adventure in comic relief -- to wit, Donald Rumsfeld's classic remark that "we know where they are: they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat."

Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny Randall Amster 2010