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Definition of choose
1a : to select freely and after consideration
choose a career
b : to decide on especially by vote : elect chose her as captain
2a : to have a preference for
choose one car over another
b : decide chose to go by train
1 : to make a selection
finding it hard to choose
2 : to take an alternative —used after cannot and usually followed by butwhen earth is so kind, men cannot choose but be happy— J. A. Froude
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The first known use of choose was before the 12th century
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