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How to use the word decided in a Sentence?

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Happiness, I decided years ago, is unattainable and I don’t wish to seek it through the usual methods. Peace is a reflection of our souls, leaving me a non-entity. I cry because people want to feel and I join them in their fears and private agonies and I wish for death and pray for life and hope to God that God even gives a shit and before I die and receive my judgment I just want to help 1 person FEEL, to know what it is to be alive and to ease their suffering as only a tormented soul can.

Scott C. Holstad

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10 months ago

My mum believed he was going to be taken or shot. Luckily they decided to let him go.

Muna Daoud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(The American electorate is) going to see a race, and they’re going to judge whether or not I have it or don’t have it. I respect them taking a hard look at it. I take a hard look at it as well – I took a hard look at it before I decided to run, and I feel good, I feel excited about the prospects.

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Biden

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1 year ago

The governor got very angry about the position that Disney took, and it seems like he’s decided to retaliate against us. … in effect, to seek to punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right, and that just seems really wrong to me – against any company or individual, but particularly against a company that means so much to the state that you live in.

Bob Iger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As is common practice, the Supreme Court has decided to maintain the status quo, our case seeking to put women’s health above politics continues on an expedited basis in the lower courts.

Erik Baptist

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1 year ago

The buck stops at the top, you’re the person running (unemployment insurance in California). You’re the one who decided to waive guardrails. … The idea of promoting a person who has had that kind of experience to a position of leadership for the entire Department of Labor makes no sense at all.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our board truly wished to work with Disney, instead, the corporation decided that compromise was out of the question. It was Disney’s way or the highway.

Martin Garcia

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1 year ago

The Biden administration inherited a deadline without a clear plan of how to get there, but they then undertook their own review. And in April, Biden decided to go ahead with it and delayed the withdrawal timeline, so they did not exactly take the blueprint they were given in that regard.

Congress One source

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1 year ago

There was a lot of discussion about the effects of immunosuppressive drugs on the human body and on the ability of an athlete to train. They do a number on the body … so the Federation decided that the only fair way to do this would be to make sure that … it’s like apples-to-apples competition.

Gary Green

Found on CNN
1 year ago

WBD has clearly decided on the opposite approach.

Insider Intelligence analyst Paul Verna

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1 year ago

I haven’t decided yet on 2024. I’m thinking about it, you run for office … because you think you have something to contribute. You think it’s a moment where you might be able to serve, and if you lose, that motivation doesn’t necessarily go away.

David McCormick

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1 year ago

It was the night in Salt Lake City that we decided to really go all in, we had a lot of serious conversations right off the bat – where we were financially, what our aspirations were, where we were politically, what our relationships with our family were like, and what we really wanted out of life if we were going to have another serious relationship.

Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have decided to change my party affiliation, joining the Republican Party, and have been welcomed with open arms by my colleagues.

Tricia Cotham

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1 year ago

We had to stop the renovation for a couple of months but, after discussing it with the owners, we decided to continue it to be ready when the war ends.

General Manager Kateryna Matiushchenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe very strongly these water issues are best decided at the state level, the Western senators can play an important role in trying to backstop the consensus the states can come to. This is a real crisis for the American west and potentially for our future.

Michael Bennet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We couldn’t ignore that kind of insight, instead of rejecting it, we decided to embrace it.

Mauro Porcini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was a plain extortion. And I don’t know, since when we’ve decided to start prosecuting extortion victims. He’s denied, vehemently denied, this affair.

Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The maximum CO2 emissions set for each airport will apply for several years, so that an exceedance in one year can be compensated in subsequent years, the policy will help the country meet its carbon goal Further details remain to be decided and the government promises that discussions will include all parties.

The Dutch transport ministry

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1 year ago

If you could tell a potential candidate that they would have greater financial security if they decided to wage a campaign for office, then it might increase the pool of candidates, including women.

Kelly Dittmar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The principles that we profess – they are enshrined within our mission statement and bylaws, but we’re more than that. … These are our neighbors, our cousins – we see each other in a grocery store. So, it was bigger than that. And we decided that we needed to communicate differently.

Elizer Darris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have decided to start the parliamentary ratification process of Finland’s NATO Accession Protocol.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a larger species, the king penguins have eyes large and stable enough to hold the custom lenses in place so we decided to pursue this world-first procedure to further improve their vision above removing the cataract.

Gladys Boo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve been wrestling with this for a while and I’ve decided that it’s time for me to step away from ‘The Voice,’ this show has changed my life in every way for the better and it will always feel like home to me.

Blake Shelton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Four years in the making. We arrived late at night and met our friend Paolo in the main piazza. They’ve decided to named their home.

Doug Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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