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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
Supreme Court may not reach a quick decision on Trump case
Even if Trump loses his appeal, the Supreme Court may not reach a decision quickly enough for a trial to proceed in time for a verdict before the November election.
—USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
Days after the killings, McDonald made the unprecedented decision to criminally charge the parents for a mass school shooting committed by their child.
—Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
The network has yet to make a decision on L&O: Organized Crime.
Keep track of all the renewals, cancellations and new series orders on broadcast TV with THR’s network scorecard.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
Disney+, Hulu and Paramount+ have made similar decisions, roiling an already-baffling patchwork of streaming options.
—T.m. Brown, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
The initiative — which barely made it on the ballot after the state Supreme Court eked out a 4-3 decision approving the language last week — requires 60% approval to pass.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Volunteer directors should not fear liability, even while making important association decisions.
—Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2024
The sale comes after Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision last month to shut down Rooster Teeth.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
But in between the Lime bike wet legs and collegial lifts and lax Metro decisions a few semi-coherent impressions remain.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2024
The International Energy Agency reported last month that demand for oil, gas and coal will peak by 2030 before going into a steady decline, leading its executive director, Fatih Birol, to warn oil company executives that decisions to double down on fossil fuel infrastructure could prove misguided.
—Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
Several other cases against Mr. Barker and the producers were settled out of court, decisions Mr. Barker attributed to the show’s owners over the years.
—Robin Webb, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
Suggestions by officials that decisions about releasing flood waters into Zhuozhou and elsewhere in Hebei were made to minimize the impact on the capital Beijing, Xiong’an and the port city of Tianjin also caused a backlash.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
How Ryan Day and/or Brian Hartline call a game — and what decisions those quarterbacks make — could vary noticeably from their predecessors.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 July 2023
Decision Intelligence encompasses a range of approaches, from decision automation (where the machine does most of the decision-making) to decision augmentation (balancing humans and machines).
—James Taylor, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
This is a book about the decisions that many of us in our daily lives and certainly decisions that our government has made — and our corporations have made — to allow and perpetuate all this poverty in this land.
—Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English decisioun, borrowed from Anglo-French decision "judgment" (Middle French also "act of deciding, coming to a definitive conclusion"), borrowed from Latin dēcīsiōn-, dēcīsio "curtailment, diminishment, settlement, agreement," from dēcīdere "to cut off, cut out, mark by cutting, settle, choose as a course of action" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at decide
Verb
derivative of decision entry 1
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1914, in the meaning defined above
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“Decision.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decision. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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Note: A decision, while being an authoritative determination of a disputed issue, does not have to be a final determination closing the case. Some interlocutory decisions may be appealed.
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