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“Execs are deliberating over details; announcement pending. Meanwhile, McDaniel is seeking legal representation,” Byers tweeted on Tuesday.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2024

New Yorkers are deliberating a potential five-mile-long wall across New York Harbor.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

Like a child assembling a set of gemstones for their prized collection, mission scientists are deliberating over which rocks the rover should sample to amass the most geologically diverse cache.

From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2022

Officials are deliberating over how to keep it open to the public and still protect the trees and beach near where Blackbeard held his big party and later died just offshore.

From Washington Times • Jul. 4, 2020

They are deliberating, but I am in despair to see nothing come of their deliberations; every one is greatly alarmed.

From The Story of Versailles by Payne, Francis Loring