How to Use decision in a Sentence
- She announced her decision to go to medical school.
- We need someone who will act with decision even under pressure.
- The U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision brought an end to racial segregation in public schools.
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Just you and the decision in front of you.
—Liam Chrismer, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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Many of those decisions were not my best work.
—Liam Chrismer, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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The fourth was just a crazy-a— decision.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
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And that decision helped shape a world.
—Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
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There was decisions that got made.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
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Lopes dropped that fight by decision.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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Lopes dropped that fight by decision.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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Lopes dropped that fight by decision.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Leo has a full plate and plenty of big decisions to make.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
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But who will be involved in those depth chart decisions?
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
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At the time of writing, no decision has been made.
—Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
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Sometimes the best decisions are those that go against the crowd.
—Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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That decision will be made in the coming weeks.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
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In the first half, a key decision early on led to the first points of the game.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
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One bad swing or one bad decision doesn’t affect the rest of his at-bat.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026
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The rookie lived off the pick-and-roll and made quick decisions off the bounce.
—Latif Love, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026
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But all said they had already been forced to make at least some painful decisions.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
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Sandy is happy with the decision as well.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 June 2026
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Davey wasn’t afraid to make a tough decision.
—Thomas Schlachter, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
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Who makes these decisions, a 21-year-old?
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
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Supreme Court decisions that tend to come out in June.
—Editorial Board, Washington Post, 16 June 2026
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The only real decision is whether to wear a suit or not.
—Olivia Allen, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2025
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Making that decision was the hard part.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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The decision to close the stores was in part due to its indie standing.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
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The state did not appeal that decision.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
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So that was a pretty easy decision to want to extend him.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
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The goal isn’t to make decisions quickly.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 15 June 2026
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The company prides itself on how few, not how many, decisions senior leaders make.
—Chris Westfall, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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Success metrics will evolve from model size to cost per outcome, time to decision, and tangible real world impact.
—Abhas Ricky, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
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How might that decision influence the fashion choices of the television and movie stars in attendance?
—The Styles Desk, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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This poor robot is discovering free will and decision paralysis.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
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In 2024, the ladies who show up as their most authentic selves on the court are also taking risks in regard to the style decisions their making off the court.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 28 June 2024
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This shift from data collection to decision support makes the work people put into their PHRs worth the effort.
—Stephen Wunker, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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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
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Advisors are moving from information providers to decision partners, and from portfolio managers to life planners.
—Dan Cavanaugh, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
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But does decision intelligence bring all the traders in the AI market hall together at last and provide new light at the end of the intelligence tunnel?
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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In employment, first impressions not only affect hiring choices but also decisions about promotion years later.
—Cindi May, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
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So what happens in Washington matters to the world in the same way that decisions in Rome during the height of its imperial era mattered to everyone who lived near its borders.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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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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Psychologists increasingly point to decision fatigue as a defining strain of this environment.
—William Jones january 21, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
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Metrics should also move beyond speed and cycle time to decision quality, error recovery cost, compliance confidence and customer impact.
—Rajesh Gharpure, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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The challenge for retailers is to balance providing enough options to meet diverse consumer needs without overwhelming them, which can lead to decision paralysis or abandonment of the purchase.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
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The incident appears to have been a very minor scuffle, nothing that anyone would have noted, if not for Peters’ attorneys decision to blow it out of proportion and highlight it in the media.
—Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2026
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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
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MoneyBagg penned a heartfelt letter to his fans explaining his hiatus and decision to return to the music space, with the new music slated for a May 26 release date.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 11 May 2023
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Where leaders hesitate to shift authority, decisions bottleneck.
—Katerin Le Folcalvez, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
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While many totally disagree with the committees decision to put both Alabama and Miami into the playoff over Notre Dame, the decision has been made.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
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Questions — and hopefully lessons Backcountry around the world are waiting for officials to release more information about what decisions Blackbird’s guides made leading into the tragedy.
—Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
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The traditional buyer journey—the familiar path from awareness to consideration to decision—is disappearing.
—Danielle Sabrina, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Dr Margie Warrell is a leadership advisor and international speaker who is passionate about advancing women to decision making tables.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
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Former councilmembers have appointed family to decision making bodies in the past and multiple current councilmembers have relatives serving on different commissions.
—Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
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Prior research has shown that cognitive decline in elderly people can affect their situational awareness as well as delay decision their making, while reduced dexterity in these populations can become worse in high-stress situations, such as a plane fire.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
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The competitive advantage shifts from execution capacity to decision quality.
—Sairam Vedam, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
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First, organizations should formalize decision-rights mapping—documenting which decisions an AI agent is authorized to make, at what threshold human review is required and who carries accountability for each class of outcome.
—Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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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
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Cruise and Kidman were married for 11 years and announced their divorce in February 2001, so perhaps Cruise won’t exactly be taking inspiration from Kidman’s relationship decisions post-divorce.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 7 Nov. 2025
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