Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Determining or able to determine an outcome.
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- verb Present participle of
decide .
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- noun the cognitive process of reaching a decision
- adjective having the power or quality of deciding
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Examples
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Barcelona find their Tuesday home leg between a late-night bruising encounter with the robust Athletic Bilbao Sunday, and a title deciding away encounter on Saturday with joint league leaders and bitter arch rivals -
Arsenal Mania Benjamin Cullen 2010
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A lot more people will suddenly want to have a direct say in deciding who gets the job in the first place.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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This was so important to me, that it was the singular factor i looked for in deciding who to marry.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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This was so important to me, that it was the singular factor i looked for in deciding who to marry.
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Checking any Privacy Policy a site might have can sometimes be useful in deciding whether to sign up or not.
Spam from Xavier – how to avoid your email address getting stolen 2010
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In Miranda, I (and most others) believe they were absolutely right in deciding that police could not lock people up without telling them their rights.
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But the bottom line is that if you think this ‘issue’ is a key factor in deciding who should be the next Governor, we truly do have different priorities.
State of the Race: Steve Poizner (R CAND, CA-GOV). | RedState 2010
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The most important factor in deciding WordPress theme is the ease of installation, user friendly and search engine optimised.
Plentyoffish Serious Member Profile Upgrade… « The Paradigm Shift 2009
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Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
It’s not that the teeth don’t move; it’s that the head doesn’t. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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During the Bush administration, however, EPA ignored this direction and instead employed a skewed cost-benefit analysis in deciding how to regulate.
Wonk Room » The Supreme Court Term In Review, Part I: The Environment 2009
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