Word: randomly
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Oppressed by the random fondlings and thrusts...
...ballots back together and determine which ballots are going to be turned over," Neighbor said. "Nothing could be more random...
...random phone survey of 100 students asked for opinions on the Core requirements, Expository Writing and the foreign language requirement...
TIME WAS WHEN A LITTLE BOY WHO wanted to see a dirty word in print made a surreptitious trip to the dictionary and got his thrill. Now, with the publication of The F-Word (Random House paperback; 232 pages; $12.95), any curious boy or, for that matter, girl can get a bonanza of thrills and at the same time become the most foulmouthed and maybe most envied kid on the block...
...title suggests, The F-Word, compiled by Jesse Sheidlower, a reference-book editor at Random House, and prefaced with a playful essay by humor writer Roy Blount Jr., is a more or less scholarly lexicon devoted solely to all the unimaginable variations and permutations of what is surely the most often used sexual term in the English language. So "linguistically important" is it, says Sheidlower, "that its serious documentation is not only appropriate but also required...