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  • verb To arrange randomly; to make random

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb arrange in random order

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Examples

  • But while Nice admits that the new evidence it has included in the report is weak, it is not easy to obtain good research in this area because you can't randomise women to plan to give birth vaginally or by a section.

    Dr Dillner's health dilemmas: should I have a caesarean section? 2011

  • If the goal is to delay sexual activity or reduce STIs, and you don't know what age to start or what to teach, then stop wittering: define your outcome, randomise schools to different programmes, and you'll have the answer by the end of next parliament.

    How can you tell if a policy is working? Run a trial | Ben Goldacre 2011

  • At the moment, sentences are hugely variable anyway: randomise properly and run a trial.

    How can you tell if a policy is working? Run a trial | Ben Goldacre 2011

  • If we don't randomise, "using phonics" might not be the only difference between the two groups of schools.

    A 'shoot-out' between methods won't help us teach more children to read 2010

  • Well, in that case the thing to do would be to wait until the layer was bringing in a ton of revenue then randomise the location of objects on the page.

    You've Been Blerped! Now What Do You Do? 2009

  • The Jadad score picks out 3 common sources of bias failure to randomise, failure to blind, dropouts and withdrawals, but there are many other sources of bias, and even Jadad would not say that it is safe to use on its own.

    BCA v Singh: The First Court Hearing Is Ordered Jack of Kent 2009

  • Lots of information displayed when music is playing (battery status, total track time, time elapsed, bitrate, playlist setting (randomise or repeat), track title and artist, volume, mp3/wma, equaliser, and even scrolling lyrics for those personal karaoke moments).

    Hit Pearl Z mp3/mp4 player (review) StyleyGeek 2007

  • Lots of information displayed when music is playing (battery status, total track time, time elapsed, bitrate, playlist setting (randomise or repeat), track title and artist, volume, mp3/wma, equaliser, and even scrolling lyrics for those personal karaoke moments).

    Archive 2007-04-01 StyleyGeek 2007

  • It took clinical trial experts Synexus, just ten months to carry out 52,000 DEXA scans and randomise over 2,700 patients across twelve of their UK, European and African dedicated research centres.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • It took clinical trial experts Synexus, just ten months to carry out 52,000 DEXA scans and randomise over 2,700 patients across twelve of their UK, European and African dedicated research centres.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

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