deliberate
verb
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Definition of deliberate
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deliberate
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for deliberate
Synonyms: Verb
chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, entertain, eye, kick around, meditate, mull (over), perpend, ponder, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with)
Synonyms: Adjective
advised, calculated, considered, knowing, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, thought-out, weighed
Antonyms: Adjective
casual, unadvised, uncalculated, unconsidered, unstudied
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Examples of deliberate in a Sentence
Verb
The jury deliberated for two days before reaching a verdict. They will deliberate the question.Adjective
She spoke in a clear, deliberate manner. He advocates a slow and deliberate approach to the problem.
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Izzo came for closing arguments and later sat in a courthouse lounge with Cleaves and the defense lawyers as jurors were deliberating. — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, "How a Flint court battle became Mateen Cleaves' most divisive victory," 21 Aug. 2019 The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Monday that jurors deliberated for two hours before returning guilty verdicts for 48-year-old Stephen Merle Houk. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Man guilty of kidnap, abuse after wild California RV chase," 19 Aug. 2019 The State Journal says the jury deliberated for about 1½ hours before reaching the guilty verdict. — Gary Krentz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Semi driver convicted in bus crash that injured 33," 16 Aug. 2019 The fate of the transaction had hung in the balance for months as Justice Department antitrust chief Makan Delrahim deliberated on whether to block it. — Brian Fung, CNN, "T-Mobile's mega-merger with Sprint can move forward, Justice Department says," 26 July 2019 One rule stipulates that after closing arguments, senators may deliberate by conference before voting in the chamber whether to sustain one or more of the impeachment articles, which would require a two-thirds majority. — John Raby, The Seattle Times, "West Virginia Senate OKs rules for impeachment trials," 20 Aug. 2018 Their trial began in May, closing arguments were delivered over more than two days this week and the jury began deliberating Wednesday. — Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN, "Jury ends first day of deliberation in trial of two men in the 36 deaths in Oakland's Ghost Ship fire," 1 Aug. 2019 The jury of seven men and five women is scheduled to begin deliberating on Tuesday. — Ralph Vartabedian, latimes.com, "Toyota expands Prius recall, reveals up to 20,000 hybrid inverters failed," 2 July 2019 The 12-member jury began deliberating about noon and needed only four hours to reach a verdict. — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, "Scott Nelson verdict: Guilty of 1st-degree murder in kidnap, killing of Jennifer Fulford," 28 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
My sense is that the Commission’s vote, without proper notice or input or approval from the City Council, was deliberate in order to avoid any resistance from me and others who believe the artwork should remain. — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, "Weather-beaten Berkeley sculptures wear out their welcome; supporters call for saving them," 20 Aug. 2019 The move to push down a currency's value can be deliberate. — Erik Sherman, Fortune, "‘Negative’ Interest Rates Used to be Unthinkable in the U.S.—Not Anymore," 14 Aug. 2019 But the state attorney’s office there has said that the girl was 16, and The Miami Herald reported that the obfuscation of her age was deliberate. — New York Times, "Jeffrey Epstein Registered as a Sex Offender in 2 States. In New Mexico, He Didn’t Have To.," 11 July 2019 So clearly, this is a deliberate suppression of one kind of narrative and the promotion of another. — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, "Getting trolled is a small price to pay to get information out of Kashmir, says activist Shehla Rashid," 22 Aug. 2019 As a growing number of higher-education institutions find themselves on the brink of a shutdown, however, administrators are getting savvier and more deliberate about schools’ postmortem existences. — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, "The College That Became a Prison," 12 July 2019 My wife’s grandfather actually contracted malaria at Anzio as a consequence of this deliberate act of biological warfare by the Nazis. — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, "How Mosquitos Helped Shape the Course of Human History," 5 Aug. 2019 Hofmann was known to be strict, sometimes tearing up his students’ drawings, so the deliberate act of slicing with scissors provided a kind of childish delight. —