as in believing
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I deem it fitting that we mark this solemn occasion with a day of prayer and thanksgiving
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Recent Examples of deeming
Chief Mighty Maroon was used from 1982 to 2002, but school officials retired him after deeming it offensive and lacking a connection to an actual Native American tribe.
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Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
The official scorer at Citi Field decided to give the win to Williams instead of Brazobán, deeming the latter’s outing ineffective because of the tying grand slam.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2026
The team listed forward Sam Hauser (lower back spasms) as available after initially deeming him questionable before the Knicks matchup.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
Barrett has spent more than 10 years looking for a tasting room for La Sirena, deeming every other option too big, too expensive or both.
—Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026
Sports leagues permitted daily fantasy sports, deeming them games of skill, not chance.
—Michael Delayo, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Wall Street is largely bullish on Chord Energy, with 18 out of 20 analysts deeming it a buy or strong buy, per LSEG.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth soon issued an order deeming Anthropic a supply chain risk, a designation typically reserved for companies linked to foreign adversaries.
—Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
Discovery deeming Paramount’s offer as superior.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2026
Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
The official scorer at Citi Field decided to give the win to Williams instead of Brazobán, deeming the latter’s outing ineffective because of the tying grand slam.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2026
The team listed forward Sam Hauser (lower back spasms) as available after initially deeming him questionable before the Knicks matchup.
—Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
Barrett has spent more than 10 years looking for a tasting room for La Sirena, deeming every other option too big, too expensive or both.
—Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026
Sports leagues permitted daily fantasy sports, deeming them games of skill, not chance.
—Michael Delayo, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Wall Street is largely bullish on Chord Energy, with 18 out of 20 analysts deeming it a buy or strong buy, per LSEG.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth soon issued an order deeming Anthropic a supply chain risk, a designation typically reserved for companies linked to foreign adversaries.
—Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
Discovery deeming Paramount’s offer as superior.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deeming
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Brown griped about the officiating, believing the refs missed some calls at the basket.—
CBS New York Team,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Some former critics, believing that local news was too important to disappear, began to rethink their aversion toward publicly funding journalism in the United States.—
Corey Hutchins,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Boston fans can start thinking about the second round.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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And Kibu is hardly the only company thinking about how to achieve ideal ID verification.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Safety and Clinic Standards Safety is often one of the first concerns people have when considering treatment abroad.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Van Bendegem, who would become a leading scholar on ultrafinitist logic, later addressed these concerns by considering a geometry in which a line or curve has width and is both finite and finitely divisible.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Working with the Calling All Dreamers advisors, Christine Wonderson is figuring how to break the business down into more achievable chunks, rather than trying to do everything at once.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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Tanner Scott and Blake Treinen will need to step up, with Alex Vesia also figuring to factor into Roberts’ late-inning plans.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Frey keeps hitters guessing because of his rare ability to throw five different pitches for strikes.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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Forty-eight hours before Pearlman was guessing the name of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s unborn daughter, back on Hollywood Boulevard, Kimmel downshifted from Donald to Melania.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But dismantling polluting industries, trying to clean up our air and our water, and imagining a health care system not driven by profit would take coordinated, radical restructuring.—
Hannah Kerman,
STAT,
29 Apr. 2026
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And looking at things from different angles and imagining different outcomes is a social worker skill that helps me as a fiction writer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Even supposing the pledges in the 1990s documents amounted to a crime, the legal deadline for bringing mortgage fraud charges has expired.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
8 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Some residents living as far away as Alameda and Contra Costa counties reporting feeling the shaking, as did Peninsula residents south of the city.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Zuccarello talked to the media after the game and participated in the morning skate before Game 2 but wasn’t feeling right and hasn’t played since.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Deeming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deeming. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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