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deciding

[ dih-sahy-ding ]

adjective

  1. that settles a question or dispute or leads to a final decision; determining; decisive:

    the deciding vote; The weather will be the deciding factor as to whether we have the picnic or not.



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Other Word Forms

  • ·iԲ· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of deciding1

First recorded in 1650–60; decide + -ing 2
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Raducanu, who continues to work with coach Mark Petchey on an informal basis, improved in the second set, winning four games in a row on her way to forcing a deciding set.

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The Post Office has paid more than £600m of public money to continue using the faulty Horizon IT system despite deciding to ditch it more than a decade ago, the BBC can reveal.

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The British number three used his experience to see out victory after Landaluce produced a wild game at 4-4 in the deciding set.

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“This is like having a winning sports team and deciding to trade all your players,” Davis said.

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“It’s like they’re deciding between McDonald’s and Burger King,” said Patrick Griffin, the “wolf liaison” for Siskiyou County, whose job is to try to mitigate conflict between the predators and ranchers.

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