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Discover LudwigThe phrase "Deliberating if" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used when discussing the process of considering or pondering a decision, but it should be followed by "whether" instead of "if."
Example: "I am deliberating whether to accept the job offer."
Alternatives: "Considering whether" or "Pondering whether".
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Judges had been deliberating if Mr Ecclestone should face trial over allegations that he made a corrupt payment to a German banker when the sport was sold almost a decade ago, according to Sky News.
His grandiose, yet slightly fey bad guy is equally funny when he's chewing out minions as he is when deliberating if Oscar the Grouch and Darth Vader are evil enough to join his team".
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One could say that he deliberates, if deliberation were something that post-dated rather than preceded action; but the thought process he goes through after he acts comes too late to save him from error.
"You have to be deliberate if you want this to last.
The journals, I had convinced myself, were a deliberate if unacknowledged communion between subject and biographer.
I assumed this was a deliberate, if alarmingly dark, joke by someone on the front page team.
If there has been time to deliberate, if impulse has given way to judgment, one cause, it is said, has spent its force, and another has intervened.
And with linebacker Tully Banta-Cain, their best sacker last season, also back in the fold, the Patriots took deliberate, if unspectacular, steps toward solidifying their defense.
Don't be silly: it was a deliberate, if subtle, gesture of sympathy with a part of the Republican coalition that never gets mentioned in public.
"The symbolism is deliberate: If you write with your right hand, your right fingers would be cut off, or burned in acid," said Melhem, the Lebanese journalist.
In the Bonds case, though, Illston would probably send the jury back to deliberate if it said it was deadlocked on at least one of the charges, Keane said.
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