How to Use randomize in a Sentence

randomize

verb
Definition of randomizenext
  • The numbers have been randomized.
  • A randomized study of patients treated with the drug showed it to be effective.
  • Services like Twitter, by contrast, randomize the URLs of posts so they can't be guessed.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Speaking strictly as a fan, randomizing the entire top 14 would turn lottery night into one of the wildest nights of the NBA year.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The prefix that defines the subdomain is randomized and is never used more than once or twice in such an attack.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 19 July 2023
  • Patients were randomized to either get one of three doses of pemvidutide or a placebo for 48 weeks.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 23 June 2024
  • The answers are then anonymized, randomized, and rated by a panel of hiring managers to prevent any bias.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 May 2023
  • Many other systems, like melting ice, randomize the same way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Swift revealed the first eight tracks (at midnight, naturally) with the help of a bingo-ball cage to randomize which track names get announced when.
    — Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The pulses are also randomized, which is a huge reason why the results are so dramatic.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Ballot order is randomized in every race, as research shows a slight advantage for names at the top or bottom of a list.
    — John Myers, latimes.com, 9 June 2018
  • Half were randomized to receive zuranolone, while the other half got a placebo.
    — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
  • What’s also notable is that the adversaries have their own abilities that are randomized in each playthrough.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • There’s also an adjustable auto-timeout to lock the drive, randomize its touch-screen layout, and secure-erase the drive to wipe out all passwords and the encryption key.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Study participants were randomized to receive both doses in one arm or the second dose in the opposite arm.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Lilly’s phase 2 trial looked at 338 adults who were obese or overweight and were randomized to receive a placebo or one of four dosages of retatrutide.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 26 June 2023
  • The details of every test can be randomized to prevent the subject from simply memorizing the right answers.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PCMAG, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The trial will be randomized, meaning that some subjects will be given placebos, Schacker said.
    — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Between generating images, tap the number in the top center of the screen to randomize the seed, which is a number that partially guides the generation of the image.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The 250 treatment participants weren’t randomized on the basis of their biotypes.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 20 June 2024
  • Her study, like the University of Michigan's, is a randomized, controlled trial — one group of women got to use VR headsets while others didn't.
    — Rachel Metz, CNN, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Over 16 weeks, participants were randomized to receive a once-weekly 1.0 mg dose of semaglutide or a placebo.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 13 June 2024
  • Insofar as randomized, controlled trials for diet can be done, many have been.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
  • In one part of the test, several thousand patients who had no portal account were randomized so that some received a telephone call reminder and others did not.
    — Lola Butcher, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Brigham Health is conducting further randomized controlled trials to test the at-home model for a broader range of diagnoses.
    — Michelle Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • First, since the antibodies are in limited supply, states such as Colorado have set up a system to randomize who gets doses if supply runs short.
    — Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2020
  • A key issue that has dogged randomized controlled trials of MDMA and other mind-altering drugs is how to minimize bias.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Another less intrusive option would be to require CEOs to randomize their trades.
    — M. Todd Henderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
  • In this randomized controlled clinical trial, the patients were assigned to either a high onion diet (consisting of raw red onion) or a low onion diet.
    — Health.com, 22 June 2018
  • There’s a survival mode, along with daily challenges that randomize the Ravenii encounters, in case repeating the same five objectives (rescue X civilians, kill Y Ravenii) across the same half-dozen maps in the campaign isn’t enough for you.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2018

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