Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, Aczel explains that if a bus arrives at a bus stop, on average, every 10 minutes, and you arrive at the bus stop at a random time, you will, on average have to wait more than five minutes for the bus. This is because if you arrive randomly, you are more likely to arrive during a long interval between buses than you are to arrive during a short interval between buses due to the fact that there are more total minutes in the long intervals than there are in the short intervals. The problem comes when Aczel extends this...
Congrats! This strapping young Harvard man definitely sweats you. Word to the wise: Watch out for his intentions. This smooth talker may be out for little more than a random hook-up. Beware of any bed larger than a twin extra-long...
...when I went home for Thanksgiving Break." She had sent me a Smilogram that said something like, 'I hope we take more walks together' or something cheesy like that. Over Thanksgiving, when I took out my wallet and saw the Smilogram, I realized that this was not random anymore--it was a regular relationship." Danny still keeps the Smilogram in his wallet...
...Random House...
...courses to make Nero blanch. I lingered in Grendel's downstairs and I didn't care that I woke up warm and peaceful the next day well into my section taking place far away in the Barker Center. I was new and older. The boundaries marking my passage are random and dismissable, but I'd rather not dismiss them. Instead I'll revel in those things which make a collection of minutes and hours...