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  1. ad hocery: Merriam-Webster
  2. ad hocery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ad hocery: Wiktionary
  4. ad hocery: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (ad hocery)

noun:  Use of ad hoc or improvised reasoning.
noun:  (computing) Arbitrary decision rules sometimes included in artificially intelligent software to simulate the unexpectedness in human reasoning.

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