Word: randomized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just about any sentence from the book, chosen at random, one finds use of an unusual but exactly fitting word. Gabler possesses an unusually large vocabulary. His word choice is always precise and ingenious and leaves the reader wondering why most of these extraordinary words are not more common in writing and speech...
Slowly but surely, the education of my friends is paying off, though they haven't quite reached the palate-pleasing plateau upon which Adam and I reside. (Perhaps our mutual Southern Californian heritage explains our food snobbery?) But at least now roommates, blockmates, and random acquaintances all eagerly anticipate my mother's packages. I want Adam to know that a few Cantabrigians understand the joy of cookies and uphold the Banner of the Gourmet in his absence. MARY-BETH A. MUCHMORE...
...light of the fact that they suspect alecturer, that makes me feel a little more safebecause then it wouldn't be so random," she said...
...commerce vendors employ a technology known as SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer. SSL allows your personal information to be encrypted via the application of a sophisticated mathematical formula. The encryption process turns your information from a form that is easily understood by any human to a mass of seemingly random gibberish. The intended receiver of the information can then transform the gibberish back into its original form via a decryption process that uses a different set of mathematical formulas...
Since the dawn of humankind, there have always been geniuses born to the general population at random intervals. But geniuses have rarely married other geniuses because there were so few and it was unlikely they would meet. Until recently, people married whoever lived nearby and wasn't a relative. And if your cousin's parents were willing to give you a fine-looking goat, you would be flexible on the relative issue too. Not that it mattered, since the demand for geniuses was low. But lately the demand for geniuses is growing exponentially, along with their breeding opportunities, thanks...