How to Use decision-maker in a Sentence

decision-maker

noun
  • My greatest wish for 2025 is for decision-makers to take more strategic chances on new content.
    Peter White, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But a couple more might get Canales and the other decision-makers thinking about using their top-5 pick on a quarterback.
    Joseph Person, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In acquiring Schroder, the Warriors address a need for a late-game decision-maker and multi-level scorer from the backcourt.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Even those close to Oak Ridge’s decision-makers remained in the dark.
    Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • Erich Storti is a hybrid of the two, a great decision-maker who has the juice to shake off tacklers.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
  • Morey was one of the key decision-makers in the blockbuster trade that brought Harden to the Houston Rockets.
    Chantz Martin, Fox News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • So Freeze consulted a decision-maker he’s used in the past: his gut.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • That’s part of the effect of having a single decision-maker who is 92.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Most of the time this session would be with the CEOs or other important decision-makers in the company.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The plaintiffs argued that Duarte was one of the company’s key decision-makers.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Byrne and the Tide’s decision-makers need to decide if Jackson will lose the ‘interim’ label next spring.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 11 June 2023
  • The quarterback — who is consensus top-five prospect at his position — is in the thick of the group waiting to run in front of NFL decision-makers.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But the outcry from parents, teachers, and authors changed the minds of Scholastic decision-makers.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
  • That’s all to say, the jury is out on how the decision-makers will eventually greet and implement AI.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Among the other topics the franchise’s top decision-makers touched on: ▪ Free agency.
    Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • Morris is an elite decision-maker who can run an offense and knock down an open shot, all while either starting or coming off the bench.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This story is the first in a series of profiles of influential decision-makers in health tech.
    Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 1 Aug. 2023
  • So too would be analysts at think tanks who are often in close contact with decision-makers.
    Nicola Naber, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • What should the decision-makers in Hollywood take away from this now that your show’s been nominated?
    Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • Every now and then a subject comes along that seemed compelling enough to the right decision-makers to somehow become the focus of multiple projects.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Brown’s brother, Quenton, even sat courtside with Celtics decision-makers during the team’s loss to the Wizards on Sunday.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • The decision-makers within Project Apollo were focused on their deadline, and no one dared do anything to delay the program.
    Matthew Beddingfield, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
  • If the sale is approved, Rubenstein will become the controlling partner in the ownership group, the key decision-maker.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Either gamesmanship knows no bounds, or the Niners’ top decision-makers don’t know who will play on Sunday.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The roundtables were followed the next day by a series of one-to-one 15-minute meetings with decision-makers, set up by the VdR-Industry team to match projects with potential partners.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Your decision-makers will be those best placed to understand the implications of this investment and should ask the right questions.
    Alison Bringé, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But the guitar work set him apart among the music community’s decision-makers.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 1 July 2024
  • That afforded him enough control to remain the chief decision-maker.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 19 July 2024
  • The two have built a strong relationship, and Murray has already expressed his belief and trust in the Cardinals coaching staff and the decision-makers.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But the move has prompted blowback from heavyweights in the Guatemalan private sector, as well as some key decision-makers in the courts, who granted an injunction in favor of Semilla.
    Time, 19 Aug. 2023

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