Word Finder - choice

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An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

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Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?

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The power to choose.

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She didn't leave us much choice.

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One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

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The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.

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Anything that can be chosen.

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You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate

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(usually with the) The best or most preferable part.

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Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.

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A sufficient number to choose among.

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Especially good or preferred.

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It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.

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Careful in choosing; discriminating.

At that moment there was a choice to make.

I think I like that choice better.

It was a terrible choice for a hiding place.

We had little choice but to wait and see if the weekend presented any answers.

At this point, he had no choice but to trust Darian.

You always have a choice.

Our second choice is fingering the abductor.

Howie was ambivalent as usual while Quinn indicated the choice was Martha's to make.

You do have the choice of sharing my bed or sleeping on the couch.

Maybe they had, but what choice did they have?

I was the logical choice and frankly they were lazy.

It never sat well with him that those charged with enforcing Death's mission served not out of choice but obligation to the deity that stole their souls.

The object of his choice (or rather of his second choice, for an earlier project of marriage had shortly before fallen through) was a Miss Jane Ewer, the daughter of a gentleman in Hertfordshire.

You can create your own special variety of dessert fondue featuring white, milk or dark chocolate flavored with you choice of liqueur.

Jennie was the logical choice.

She stood over me, giving me little choice though I dreaded the chore.

But it was Howie's gift, he made the choice and we were part of it.

If he made a choice, she wanted it to be the choice he'd make whether or not she was there.

I had to make a choice without knowing what would happen or even if you would be there for me in the morning.

The only thing I didn't count on was Darkyn giving me the choice of my power or Gabriel when I left Hell.

It is your choice, of course.

I thought I wanted this, yet now that I don't have a choice, I'm not so sure.

They figure if it makes money, it must be a wise business choice.

I'm afraid I don't have a choice.

The state helps to improve the breeds by placing choice stallions at the disposal of private breeders at a low tariff.

Turgot's only choice, however, was between "tinkering" at the existing system in detail and a complete revolution, and his attack on privilege, which might have been carried through by a popular minister and a strong king, was bound to form part of any effective scheme of reform.

Pope Celestine's choice fell on the deacon Palladius, who had taken a prominent part in stamping out the doctrine in Britain.

Of his separate publications, the most important are his lives of Cromwell (1888), William the Silent, (1897), Ruskin (1902), and Chatham (1905); his Meaning of History (1862; enlarged 1894) and Byzantine History in the Early Middle Ages (1900); and his essays on Early Victorian Literature (1896) and The Choice of Books (1886) are remarkable alike for generous admiration and good sense.

The choice of this man as a possible Italian liberator reminds us of the choice of Don Micheletto as general of the Florentine militia.

The choice of three series of seven seals, seven trumpets and seven bowls, to form the framework in which the history of the last woes is to be given, shows the same hand that addressed the churches as seven.

The choice was ratified by the chiefs of the army, and ultimately confirmed, though Ali, Mahomet's sonin-law, disputed it, asserting his own title to the dignity.

He settled a controversy with William of Scotland concerning the choice of the archbishop of St Andrews, and on the 13th of March 1188 removed the Scottish church from under the legatine jurisdiction of the archbishop of York, thus making it independent of all save Rome.

Few sins of omission can be charged against Garrick as a manager, but he refused Home's Douglas, and made the wrong choice between False Delicacy and The Good Natur'd Man.

But the choice will be ours and will be made based on facts.

Any teacher of composition knows that he can bring his pupils to the point of writing without errors in syntax or in the choice of words.

Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.

It was about this choice that Prince Andrew was speaking.

The count took the gentlemen into his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes.

The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness.

The plantain baskets, which come stuffed with your choice of garlic shrimp or ground beef, are delicious, as is the black bean soup.

Water would have been her choice.

In the end, there was no choice.

If she likes imitating a bean pole, that's her choice.

He has no other choice.

She had no choice but to trust the devil.

If she had a choice of what to believe, she'd believe Jule, a man she barely knew.

I doubt I'll have a choice soon, he replied.

His tone was genuinely questioning, and she felt grateful that he was giving her the choice to opt out.

Was there no choice in who she loved?

Cynthia emerged with a tray of drinks and Dean was surprised that beer was the beverage of choice.