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need to deliberate
Definition
to think about or discuss — especially with great care
- When the court deliberates, it will have to decide about the efficacy of the way our room worked.Chapter 4.41 (74% in)
- They did not speak but moved with extreme deliberation around the house, stabbing viciously and at random into the dark yielding thicknesses of the azalea hedge.Chapter 4.38 (39% in)
- No deliberation is necessary.Chapter 4.41 (38% in)
- The court will be cleared for the deliberation of the honor committee.Chapter 4.41 (75% in)
- Instead, with great deliberation, I flung the glass of water in Tradd's face.Chapter 4.48 (33% in)
There are no more uses of "deliberate" flagged with this meaning in The Lords of Discipline.
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- He picked up the papers he had just signed expelling me from school and began tearing them up, deliberately and carefully.Chapter 4.47 (76% in)
- At the front sally port, the Officer of the Guard, with deliberate clumsiness, performed an elaborate ceremony locking the front gate.Chapter 2.16 (61% in)
- He could jump higher, run faster, shoot better, pass more accurately .... it was as though God had deliberately set out to make a basketball player when he designed the body of Jimmy Mance.Chapter 3.30 (45% in)
- Mark turned the prone and bleeding body of Cain Gilbreath overon the sand, went down with his knees on Gilbreath's arms, and began hitting his face with deliberate, brutal punches.Chapter 4.38 (74% in)
There are no more uses of "deliberate" in The Lords of Discipline.
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