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Popular implementation algorithms such as stepping-out and multivariate-sampling-with-hyperrectangles add statistical inefficiency, the first in case of multimodality, the second in all circumstances. A new sampler which exploits these structural and algorithmic characteristics to reduce the variance of Monte Carlo estimates is experimented in several sampling problems. 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