Decide and Try

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Decide verb - To give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute).

Usage example: the judge decided that the defendant was not liable for damages

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Try is a synonym for decide in hear topic. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Decide", when it comes to topics like law.

Nearby Words: decisive, decision, deciding, decider

Try verb - Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of.

Usage example: The football star was tried for the murder of his wife

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Decide is a synonym for try in law topic. You can use "Decide" instead a verb "Try", if it concerns topics such as bring before a judge.

Nearby Words: tried, trying

life	decide life	try life
attack	decide attack	try attack
best	decide best	try best
time	decide time	try time
Other words: way, plan, world, game, war, hands.

You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Trust no longer need The Minutemen during such a peaceful era and decide and try to kill them off.

Source: Comic Book / 100 Bullets
Goose bums a quarter to try and decide how to find the case.

Source: Heads, Tails, Edge
In Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novel First & Only, the villains originally try force and searching his room to find something in Gaunt's possession, but eventually decide to try this.

Source: MacGuffin Delivery Service

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