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was decide
verb
To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
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The first thing to do was decide where to stand; once we had claimed our patch of ground, we would stay there.
The first thing they did was decide the answer to the question "Whassup?" should be, "Watchin' the game, havin' a Bud".
We didn't need to pack food or even plan a map route – all we had to do was decide whether to turn left or right when we joined the Capital Ring at Hackney Wick, then follow the green signposts.
Earlier this year, I had asked Marianna Madia, Renzi's minister for public administration, how he did it, and she said, laughing, "Velocity and rupture!" When I put the question to Graziano Delrio, his former chief of staff at the Chigi (and now, in the wake of the construction scandals in Milan, his minister for infrastructure), he said that the mantra was: Decide, then we'll see.
All the folks in Michigan did was decide to start the killing a little early.
A live band played reggae beats, I could smell something deliciously garlicky and the only thing I had to do, was decide which evening show to watch.
The officer can provide advice and can, if the person is under 18, as Chantelle was, decide whether to involve social services or another "supporting agency".
In a ruling that was decide 2-1, the federal US Court of Appeals in New York found that the commissioner acted within his power to ban Brady last year.
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