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decisiveness

[dih-sahy-siv-nis] / dɪˈsaɪ sɪv nɪs /


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The piece highlights a strategic approach to voting timing that balances decisiveness with gathering information before submitting a ballot.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

Disney board chairman James Gorman said in an emailed statement that D’Amaro’s decisiveness and clear thinking were among the traits that impressed the board when it selected him as CEO.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Is there a parallel between his unruffled personality and his decisiveness on track?

From BBC • May 22, 2025

The evaluator's rubric has six criteria to consider when determining the scores of the interview: intimacy, social desirability, general job abilities, decisiveness, cooperativeness and overall hireability.

From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2024

President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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