decide
Usage
What are other ways to say decide?
To decide is to make up one's mind as to what shall be done and the way to do it: He decided to go today. To determine is to arrive at a conclusion after reasoning or observation: He determined that there was no available path to victory. To resolve is to show firmness of purpose: He resolved to ask for a promotion.
Example Sentences
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Former players don’t decide to rejoin the brutal NFL for just anyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Readers can decide if these are serious offenses among the cast of dedicated saints known as the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Mr. Netanyahu replied, “I hear you. You’ve been very clear. But we’re going to make our own decision, and while this conversation will inform it, it will not decide it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Just as importantly, he is being given greater freedom to decide when to move.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
She hopes he will decide to switch specialties and study leprosy instead.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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"Hoaxes can influence whether someone decides to join a protest or not," said Namora Siahaan, a member of the University of Indonesia Student Executive Board, a group behind similar rallies.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Aliet decides, after Kiju dies, to return permanently to her homeplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Privorotsky also warns that even if the U.S. now decides to “aggressively de-escalate” that “crude is just one component of the problem as distillate, gasoil, diesel and critically, European natural gas have all broken out.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
No matter how the jury decides, Ms. Clancy won’t get off “scot-free.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
What if Maddy decides she’s not my friend, then bottles up all the time we’ve spent together and puts it away on a shelf to gather dust?
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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"It was difficult, and a struggle to find work, so I decided, the minute this opportunity came up, to start a new job."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Remember that London was an outstanding basketball player who went to USC and later decided to focus on football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
On Tuesday, Paul Boggs was named Sinn Féin's new West Tyrone MLA after Maoliosa McHugh - who'd already said he wouldn't run in the next election - decided to call it quits.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
When he decided to petition the Supreme Court on his own, he used artificial intelligence to learn the court’s intricate rules and study the work of top Supreme Court advocates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Finally I decided you couldn’t make them, you had to let them.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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From there, you’re mostly deciding how hearty you want dinner to be.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Earlier this year, Bayern boss Vincent Kompany shed light on Kane's unique role, explaining it as being 50% coached and 50% Kane deciding what to do.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Earlier, the judge briefly blocked the city from continuing with the implementation and is now deciding whether to require the Mamdani administration to scrap its rollout and redo it with greater due diligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Results have been mixed, with another judge deciding against government lawyers in a suit concerning Meta's social media empire but other decision going the government's way.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
He thinks perhaps he should walk around a bit first, before deciding which tents to enter.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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