decide between
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: to choose one of (two choices) : to make a choice between (two choices)
Voters must decide between the two candidates.
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The host will decide between cutting equal slices, reserving some for specific guests, or changing the size of the slices for certain partygoers.
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Ashley Case, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Local hospital leadership set up separate rooms for cats and dogs—and even carved out an area of the parking lot for horses—so that employees did not have to decide between coming to work and protecting their animals.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
The way that specials work is that the local bosses of the Democratic Party and the local bosses of the Republican Party handpick their nominees and then voters only decide between those two choices.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025
But for me, the final two films were incredibly hard to decide between.
—The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2025
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Ashley Case, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Local hospital leadership set up separate rooms for cats and dogs—and even carved out an area of the parking lot for horses—so that employees did not have to decide between coming to work and protecting their animals.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
The way that specials work is that the local bosses of the Democratic Party and the local bosses of the Republican Party handpick their nominees and then voters only decide between those two choices.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025
But for me, the final two films were incredibly hard to decide between.
—The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for decide between
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“Decide between.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decide%20between. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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