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  • The "randoming" process that moved the eggs gently about during mechanical insemination (to insure even gene distribution) did not, by some good fortune, do more than make her own wedged-in egg wobble a bit Unobtrusively she maintained her watch during the period of maturation, observed the little one who emerged from the particular egg that was hers, noted his physical markings, watched him grow.

    The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955

  • The give away would be that they would have to stand, usually at places in the proceedings where no one was standing, and randoming blessing whomever or whatever was in front of them.

    Obama Plays Hothead Card 2009

  • On some standardized, multiple choice exams points are subtracted in an attempt to adjust for, and perhaps discourage, guessing 5 choices, so expect randoming guessing to produce 1 “right” answer for every 4 wrong ones.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing to Get More Time on Exams 2009

  • Yeah, I have been randoming adding things to my journal ...

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  • "True -- I had forgot it, so lost was I in planning of a huge war with Gaul" -- he was up by this time, but a farm could have got up quicker, if there was any kind of a boom in real estate -- "and right-so a thought came randoming overthwart this majestic dream the which --"

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • "True -- I had forgot it, so lost was I in planning of a huge war with Gaul" -- he was up by this time, but a farm could have got up quicker, if there was any kind of a boom in real estate -- "and right-so a thought came randoming overthwart this majestic dream the which --"

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6. Mark Twain 1872

  • "True -- I had forgot it, so lost was I in planning of a huge war with Gaul" -- he was up by this time, but a farm could have got up quicker, if there was any kind of a boom in real estate -- "and right-so a thought came randoming overthwart this majestic dream the which --"

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

  • a body ought to discriminate -- they come together with great random, and a spear is brast, and one party brake his shield and the other one goes down, horse and man, over his horse-tail and brake his neck, and then the next candidate comes randoming in, and brast _his_ spear, and the other man brast his shield, and down

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

  • a body ought to discriminate -- they come together with great random, and a spear is brast, and one party brake his shield and the other one goes down, horse and man, over his horse-tail and brake his neck, and then the next candidate comes randoming in, and brast _his_ spear, and the other man brast his shield, and down

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872

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