Decide
Decide verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Usage example: the commanding officer decided that the soldier was indeed telling the truth
Gather and decide are semantically related. in settle an issue topic. In some cases you can use "Gather" instead a verb "Decide".
Gather
Gather verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Usage example: I gather that, since you are back so early, she didn't want to see you?
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- Not letting that bother them, they decide to keep entertaining us, and ignoring it.Once they decide to gather their weapons and pull a Big Damn Heroes they get beaten. Badly.
Source: Web Video / Trialof Leaves - Did the RNG decide to give you three straight days of typhoons, preventing you from going out to gather food and wood?
Source: Unwinnable by Design -
In one arc, the Yorozuya gang and others decide to play a MMORPG called Monkey Hunter in an attempt to gather some information on some aliens who had them unwillingly modified into screwdrivers.
Source: Everything's Better with Monkeys
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