"arbitrary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The mutability of language does not make the meaning of a text entirely arbitrary.
- The date used as the end of the ancient era is entirely arbitrary.
- This decision, if it were not to be entirely arbitrary, would presumably be based upon considerations of style or general policy.
- Like all really good recipes, the proportion of one to the other is entirely arbitrary and you could use canned rather than fresh pineapple.
- He lived so much within his own head that the times at which he ate and slept were entirely arbitrary.
- I cannot be sure that some totally unsuspected force is not at work in some entirely arbitrary way.
- A convenient, though entirely arbitrary, point to begin an account of recent changes in the English village is the middle of the nineteenth century.
- The number of chapters is never entirely arbitrary.
- The direction used in a writing system is entirely arbitrary and established by convention.
- In this regulation, the usual legal approach has been swept aside for an entirely arbitrary one.
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