deciding

de·cid·ing

adjective

Determining or able to determine an outcome: the deciding factor; the deciding vote.

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Verb

Present participle of decide.

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She ran a comb through her hair, deciding not to re-braid the top part.
Deciding to use the sun to orient herself, she detoured around several dense patches of blackberry bushes.
Sir Alfred Milner reached the Cape in May 1897, and after the difficulties with President Kruger over the Aliens' Law had been patched up he was free by August to make himself personally acquainted with the country and peoples before deciding on the lines of policy to be adopted.
Why had he tortured himself by deciding to be a cop?
Dodging cobwebs by the dozens, she pushed on until deciding she had reached a point behind the building.

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