The phrase "albeit arbitrary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a concession or acknowledgment that something is arbitrary while still being valid or acceptable in a certain context.
Example: "The committee made a decision, albeit arbitrary, that would affect the entire project."
Alternatives: "although random" or "even if subjective".
Similarly, speeding is defined as exceeding an agreed upon, albeit arbitrary, figure.
Recognizing this, we propose that the terms 'likely pathogenic' and 'likely benign' be used to mean greater than 90% certainty of a variant either being disease-causing or benign in order to provide laboratories with a common, albeit arbitrary, definition.
Assuming that $A40 $422) is spent per person per year on a dark chocolate prevention strategy in this population, the strategy would be cost effective (based on the commonly accepted, albeit arbitrary, threshold of $50 000 per years of life saved 25).
"It's totally arbitrary".
Maps are always arbitrary".
Albeit somewhat arbitrary, this categorization was useful in obtaining better balance in the next step of the study.
This is the two-hundredth entry in our DVD of the Week series, and it's fitting that, for a number that represents a milestone (albeit an arbitrary one), we're discussing a movie that is a milestone in the history of the medium.
The lack of a scientifically strict method of randomization, the treatment decision (albeit not arbitrary) by the treating surgeons, delayed surgical intervention, and shorter follow-up may be considered limitations of this study.
Just when delineations between European Union nations, the enigmatic Eurasia and Mother Russia seemed more malleable than ever, Sotheby's swoops in with their own diplomatic (albeit arguably arbitrary) solution -- the "Contemporary East".
In that definition, we aimed to draw a line (albeit an arbitrary one) between a number of tasks that either did or did not constitute tool use.
Every few months I would lose my mind trying to organize -- folding clothes and arranging all the stuff on my desk into arbitrary, albeit pretty, piles.
