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How to pronounce deciding in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms decision making
Type of higher cognitive process
Has types choice, closure, cull, determination, eclectic method, eclecticism, flip-flop, groupthink, judgement, judging, alternative, officiating, officiation, option, pick, refereeing, reject, resolution, reversal, selection, settlement, turnabout, turnaround, umpirage, judgment, change of mind
Derivation decide
Type Words
Synonyms determinant, determinative, determining


cast the deciding vote.

Examples of deciding

deciding
Before deciding what sport you'd like to try, see what your dog's strengths are.
From the sacbee.com
We're talking direction, deciding what you want and going after it in a big way.
From the sfgate.com
In deciding eligibility for an OIC, the IRS will look at your income and assets.
From the delawareonline.com
Before deciding to take out a private loan, carefully consider the alternatives.
From the businessweek.com
If he is dead, the coroner has difficulty deciding between accident and suicide.
From the time.com
After a while the Canadians, deciding we were more mad than bad, let us proceed.
From the independent.co.uk
The gallery ran for 10 years, and Maxwell spent a year deciding what to do next.
From the canberratimes.com.au
Long hours were spent deciding whether Lively's hair would be blond or brunette.
From the kentucky.com
Choosing betwen all three is about as appealing as deciding how you want to die.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Deciding(a): having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
  • Decision making: the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making"
  • (decide) reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
  • (decide) bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
  • Cause to decide; "This new development finally decided me!"
  • (decide) influence or determine; "The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election"
  • (Decide!) Decide! (Decidere!) was an Italian libertarian political association led by Daniele Capezzone.
  • (Decide) In logic, the term decidable refers to the existence of an effective method for determining membership in a set of formulas. Logical systems such as propositional logic are decidable if membership in their set of logically valid formulas (or theorems) can be effectively determined. ...
  • (Decision (baseball)) A decision is a statistical credit given to a baseball pitcher.