- present tense form of decide (3rd person singular).
decides
Example Sentences
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"I know how you feel: sadness, anger, and that all-too-familiar unease in our history, because someone decides what belongs to us, in our name, without taking us into account," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 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
District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s order follows her ruling last year that Google illegally monopolized the sophisticated online-auction technology that decides which ads appear on websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Listen, if he’s interested…,” McVay said teasingly, adding, “If Aaron decides he wants to dust them off at the age of 35, I bet you he could still do it at a pretty high clip.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
He decides he wants a large house in the woods—a house befitting a president—and that the lot of us hot, itchy, feverish men and boys will build it for him.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
