decision-making

noun

: the act or process of deciding something especially with a group of people
The project will require some difficult decision-making.
All members of the organization have a role in decision-making.
often used before another noun
the company's decision-making process

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That starts now: invest in training, set clear decision-making principles, and redesign workflows to integrate AI effectively. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 June 2025 Prompting would entail instructing a model to respond to certain queries in a specific way, whereas weights influence an AI model’s decision-making process. Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 27 June 2025 Research by Andrea Caputo identified 21 cognitive biases affecting decision-making quality. Kwame Christian Esq, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 For the past 16 years, my research has focused on understanding the decisions immune cells make during infection and how the breakdown of these decision-making processes cause disease. Andrew Monteith, The Conversation, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for decision-making

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“Decision-making.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decision-making. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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