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单词 choice
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choice
(ɔɪs )
Word forms: choices , choicer , choicest
1. countable noun B1
If there is a choice of things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want.
It's available in a choice of colours. [+ of]
At lunchtime, there's a choice between the buffet or the set menu. [+ between]
Club Sportif offer a wide choice of holidays. [+ of]
Synonyms: range, variety, selection, assortment  
2. countable noun [usually poss NOUN] B1
Your choice is someone or something that you choose from a range of things.
Although he was only joking, his choice of words made Rodney angry. [+ of]
Synonyms: selection, preference, election, pick  
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Choice means of very high quality. [formal]
...Fortnum and Mason's choicest chocolates.
Synonyms: best, bad [slang], special, prime  
4. have no choice/ have little choice phrase B2
If you have no choice but to do something or have little choice but to do it, you cannot avoid doing it.
They had little choice but to agree to what he suggested.
5. of one's choice phrase B2
The thing or person of your choice is the one that you choose.
...tickets to see the football team of your choice.
In many societies children still marry someone of their parents' choice.
6. of choice phrase
The item of choice is the one that most people prefer.
The drug is set to become the treatment of choice for asthma worldwide.
London remains the destination of choice for many billionaires.
Quotations:
You pays your money and you takes your choice Punch
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destiniesA.J.ToynbeeSome Great `Ifs' of History
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferredJoseph RouxMeditations of a Parish Priest
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth so is heRalph Waldo EmersonSpiritual Laws
Idioms:
Hobson's choice [mainly British]
a decision which forces you to choose between two things which are both bad, and so you cannot possibly be happy
They want rid of him, he is irreplaceable. It really is Hobson's choice for them. Hell with him, or Hell without him.
of choice
used after a noun for describing something that is chosen most often by a particular group of people or for a particular purpose
Now we have conclusive evidence that oat bran is the fibre of choice for those who want to keep their cholesterol levels out of the risk zone.
Collocations:
career choice
So how did this feed through into subsequent career choice?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The family background did much to shape his choice of career .
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Students today have to make early career choices.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
choice of destination
With every year that passes, my gut expands and therefore my choice of destination moves 50 miles north.
Times, Sunday Times
Awkward — but hopefully it won't matter, given our unusual choice of destination.
The Sun
It was not an obvious choice of destination., with very average, spartan accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
She and her family never make an obvious choice of destination.
Times, Sunday Times
The range of activities, the quality of the ships and the huge choice of destinations are attracting a wide clientele.
Times, Sunday Times
choice of options
Their dedicated team will help with your booking, making suggestions and offer the widest choice of options of things to see and do.
The Sun
The success centre of your chart lights up and it's important to follow your feelings rather than your thoughts when faced with a choice of options.
The Sun
Customizable key bindings, a navigational tool which allows users to assign hotkeys to their choice of options in both the menus and the toolbar.
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choice word
He had choice words when she sent over one of her team to try to introduce them.
The Sun
The gaffer had a few choice words to say to us.
The Sun
And he probably has a few choice words to say about me in return.
Times, Sunday Times
He had better get used to having a few choice words hurled in his direction as he cycles through the streets.
The Sun
They did last season, too, but with a few choice words on the end.
The Sun
conscious choice
Now, she says, she makes a conscious choice to slow down.
Times,Sunday Times
An accident of casting, or a conscious choice?
Times, Sunday Times
I don't make a conscious choice what to write about.
Times, Sunday Times
But how far was going to that bar a matter of conscious choice?
Times, Sunday Times
Make no mistake, this couple will have spoken about this and made a conscious choice to go into lockdown together.
Times,Sunday Times
deliberate choice
This was a deliberate choice by successive governments to ease trade by having one common set of rules.
Times, Sunday Times
That reduced attention was the consequence of a deliberate choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Is this merely a coincidence or has it been a deliberate choice on your part?
ST
It was a deliberate choice to broaden their young minds.
Times, Sunday Times
The closure told a tale of a badly run state-owned steel industry whose demise was the deliberate choice of ministers to end subsidised overcapacity.
Times, Sunday Times
determine a choice
The same split will now determine the choice of successor.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
What determines the choice that she makes?
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
If you face a similar dilemma, the style and location of your garden should help to determine your choice of plants, as will the desired height of the hedge.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
dictate a choice
The longer you wait, the lower your premiums will be, but your circumstances should dictate your choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't allow the period of your property to dictate your choice of fireplace.
Times, Sunday Times
Barring such equipment or expertise, your mood will dictate the choice.
Globe and Mail
But in the end, as we stand at the gate, a terrible logic will dictate the choice we must make.
Times, Sunday Times
The economic condition and the cultural following of the family as well as the liking and attitude towards the fashionable living dictate the choice.
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difficult choice
This time, the corporate world faces a difficult choice.
Times, Sunday Times
If it turns out they are unable to accept how you feel, then you have a difficult choice on your hands.
The Sun
A refusal to accept intelligence gleaned by other countries with dubious methods entails a difficult choice.
Times, Sunday Times
By the end, it's a difficult choice for our esteemed judges to make.
The Sun
He says that to grow a successful business, you need to make the difficult choice where you want to go.
ST
ethical choice
Here, we outline the different ways you can make an ethical choice with your money matters, from pensions to bank accounts, and even your mortgage.
Times, Sunday Times
The society also criticises fishmongers, supermarkets and restaurants for failing to label fish adequately to help consumers to make an ethical choice when they shop.
Times, Sunday Times
I don't eat meat as an ethical choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Herbivorous species such as tilapia, carp and trout do not need to be fed wild-caught fish, making them the ethical choice for many consumers.
Times, Sunday Times
She said if a client makes your job impossible, the only ethical choice was to quit.
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excellent choice
Glossy dark green foliage and its disease resistance makes it an excellent choice.
Times, Sunday Times
It was also an excellent choice for all sorts of other reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
It's 100% gluten-free, which makes it an excellent choice for people with allergies or intolerances.
Times, Sunday Times
Supermarkets provide an excellent choice of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Times, Sunday Times
The city ranks as one of the eating capitals of the world, so join residents in any of an excellent choice of restaurants.
Times, Sunday Times
exercise choice
Now, we can exercise choice, and they're still not fine, and especially not once they've had a clumpy block heel added to them.
Times, Sunday Times
I want to ensure that we give everyone the power to exercise choice in public services.
Times, Sunday Times
Is it acceptable for death to be a passive event, or should it be one in which we exercise choice?
Times, Sunday Times
Too many people are not able to exercise choice and control at this most critical point in their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
That means we can create alternatives by exercising choice.
Times, Sunday Times
face a choice
My journey taught me that we face a choice.
Times, Sunday Times
So you face the choice: pay up or stay put.
Times, Sunday Times
Developed nations will continue to face this choice as economics collides with medical ethics.
Times, Sunday Times
I believe we face a choice: between open borders and guest workers, or closed borders and fewer workers.
Times, Sunday Times
We face a choice between a tough few years or the total collapse of our economy.
The Sun
false choice
It's not just a false choice; it's a foolish choice.
Times, Sunday Times
But at the moment there isn't a choice or it's a false choice.
Times, Sunday Times
They're ignoring the false choice that says you have to completely agree on everything in order to have a friendship and take joint action.
Christianity Today
This false choice undermines the whole idea of human rights.
Times, Sunday Times
But it wasn't a false choice, was it?
Times, Sunday Times
free choice
Both were the product of the free choice and decisions of thousands of individuals.
The Times Literary Supplement
They are demanding a free choice in elections for the city's leader in 2017.
Times, Sunday Times
Impartial as an umpire, he wonders where that leaves free choice.
Times, Sunday Times
You have three wishes, one political, one personal and one free choice.
Times, Sunday Times
The top 10 drivers must start on the tyres with which they qualify, while the rest have a free choice.
Times, Sunday Times
freedom of choice
Adverts are the propaganda, sudden changes in fashion are the ever-changing allegiances, debt is the enslavement, freedom of choice is the big lie.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Together we will bring about change for a better quality of life and freedom of choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This means there should always be freedom of choice but there should also be nudges in the direction of doing the right thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This is to allow parents with religious, ethical, or downright daft antipathies to vaccines to exercise their freedom of choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
govern a choice
If you are taking out a policy for the first time, the price will, of course, govern your choice, but the excess (the amount you will pay out of your own pocket for any claim) and the ease of the procedure for making a claim should also be key factors in your choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
No single rule nor logic seems to govern the choice of the defeated soldiers.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Latterly the fine detail of international treaty arrangements has started to govern our choice of romantic partner.
Times, Sunday Times (2019)
hard choice
But it's a hard choice - because it was all so good.
The Sun
However, she faces a hard choice when she finds the pet has made a new home with a family.
The Sun
The time for another hard choice will come soon enough.
Times, Sunday Times
But for most, an advocacy boom in law firms- and the traffic between the profession's two branches - makes it an increasingly hard choice.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a hard choice, and it has affected our family greatly.
The Sun
healthy choice
Then there are the 'healthy choice' meals that are virtually indistinguishable from their unhealthy counterparts except that they have been compressed in size.
Times, Sunday Times
Amber means it should not be eaten too often and green means it's a healthy choice.
The Sun
Frozen yoghurts with fresh fruits are a great healthy choice.
The Sun
They are taught to change their life-styles by making healthy choices for themselves and their families.
Christianity Today
Without breakfast, you won't be able to make healthy choices easily throughout the day.
Times, Sunday Times
ideal choice
He's an ideal choice, if for no other reason than consistency.
Times, Sunday Times
It has turned out to be the ideal choice.
The Times Literary Supplement
They say: the ideal choice for all the family.
Times, Sunday Times
An ideal choice for twitchers but highly recommended for anyone who spends a lot of time outdoors.
Times, Sunday Times
He seemed the ideal choice, first because he understood about summer opera festivals, and secondly because he's had a lot of experience with temporary structures.
Times, Sunday Times
individual choice
You have to have individual choice, and you have to have good governance and good decision-making.
Smithsonian Mag
By now, clothing had become an expression of individual choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Whether you want the place name in your title seems to be a matter of individual choice and, in some cases, practicality.
Times, Sunday Times
Our society's lauding of selffulfilment and individual choice has replaced it.
Times, Sunday Times
The funding of schools and housing will be governed by individual choice.
Times, Sunday Times
influence a choice
Is this meant to give us all the illusion that we can influence the choice?
Times, Sunday Times
A true comparison should reflect all the factors that influence the choice of job in the first place.
Times, Sunday Times
The originating species, class, and subclass of an antibody influence the choice of purification method.
The Scientist
The lectures were to influence his choice of future research.
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He has stated that politics do not influence his choice of performance setting.
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informed choice
That is beyond the point that they can help parents to make an informed choice of school.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Then maybe you can make an informed choice while you still have time.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Risk warnings need to be comprehensible to the public so that they can make an informed choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It would be easy to do and it would help us make an informed choice.
Hanssen, Maurice & Marsden, Jill E For Additives (1987)
But it does trust them to make an informed choice about who should govern Britain.
The Sun (2013)
inspired choice
The fans seemed impressed and most commentators felt that he was an inspired choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He cannily insisted on wearing his hat, which was an inspired choice.
Eddison, Sydney A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden (1990)
It is his first management job, and it has proved an inspired choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It felt like an inspired choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
And she was certainly an inspired choice.
The Sun (2010)
lifestyle choice
The phrase ' sofa surfing' sounds exotic, like some bohemian lifestyle choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And contrary to popular belief, it's not just a lifestyle choice.
The Sun (2016)
People who condemn such unconstrained lifestyle choice are supposedly uncompassionate.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
It's not the lifestyle choice of the weak-willed.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This has become almost a lifestyle choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
limit the choice
At home people have the choice whether to add salt, but by adding salt to foods people buy, you limit their choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Some complained about the size of the tag and said that it disturbed their sleep and limited their choice of clothing.
Times, Sunday Times
Several have shut down, limiting the choice available.
Times, Sunday Times
However, experts, while pointing to the tax savings and convenience of salary sacrifice, caution that it may not be wise to limit your choices to those offered by your employer.
Times, Sunday Times
And that limits their choices rather.
Times, Sunday Times
limited choice
Under section 70 the planning authority had a duty to act, and it had a limited choice.
Times, Sunday Times
There were also concerns that people were paying too much and had a limited choice.
The Sun
Are we heading back to the 1980s, with high fares and limited choice?
Times,Sunday Times
If we still want to choose and dismiss our governments directly, we must accept a more limited choice of candidates, as in first-past-the-post.
Times, Sunday Times
Rivals thought that shoppers would not take to its limited choice, unfamiliar brands and no-frills decor.
Times, Sunday Times
logical choice
Since he has already been exposed as unscrupulous, opinionated, self-obsessed, devious, disloyal and power hungry, politics seems a logical choice of career.
Times, Sunday Times
In terms of talent and profile, there was no other logical choice.
Times, Sunday Times
When there are decisions to make it can feel safer to look for the most logical choice.
The Sun
She suggests that they are in fact making a perfectly logical choice.
Times, Sunday Times
I felt that freezing my eggs was a logical choice to give me options further down the line.
The Sun
make a choice
Only this time the choice was made to shake on it.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Her career choice was made with the same fluid ease with which her mezzo soprano floats through babbling Ligeti.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The thing is, most of these goods are perishable, so the choice is made for you.
various & introduction by Deirdre Chapman A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990 (2003)
matter of choice
Less a matter of choice than of male social identity, party affiliation passed from father to son.
Rotundo, E. Anthony American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (1993)
Whether you plant for autumn leaf colour alone is a matter of choice.
Bloom, Adrian Winter Garden Glory (1993)
Playing barefoot football was a matter of choice as football boots were available and not too costly.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It is more than a matter of necessity; it should also be a matter of choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
menu choices
It might be worth speaking to her school nurse, who can work with staff to supervise her menu choices.
Times, Sunday Times
The menu choices expanded to more than 20 within the first week.
Times,Sunday Times
It proved a welcome break from the menu choices we had become used to.
The Sun
As well as being better suited to the weather, the new packs will also double troops' menu choices.
The Sun
The hotel chef makes the most of the seafood readily available to islanders, with scallops and prawns featured in the daily menu choices.
The Sun
moral choice
So that whereas human morality entails free will and moral choice, rhesus-monkey and coyote morality need not.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In the lives of nations, as distinguished from the lives of people, moral choice is more difficult and ambiguous.
Abshire, David M. Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy (1988)
Successful imaginary worlds ask complex questions about identity and moral choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
obvious choice
In my case, a tummy tuck would be the most obvious choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Sweet peas are the obvious choice, and cornflower, godetia, larkspur and stocks are other good examples.
The Sun (2018)
Ivy is the obvious choice, its triffid-like tendrils quickly blanketing surfaces with dense foliage and bringing an instant gothic antiquity.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
When the time came to decide on a career, he made the obvious choice.
Christianity Today (2000)
A native hardwood such as oak is the obvious choice, as it doesn't need preservative and weathers nicely.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
odd choice
It was an odd choice of word, perhaps; others might call it ' brass neck'.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
An odd choice, perhaps, for someone as flamboyantly handsome as Chris.
Fraser, Anthea DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
Not a good night and the shiny silver tie was an odd choice.
The Sun (2015)
offer a choice
Businesses that offer a choice of ways to contact them - such as email and webchat - won't exclude deaf customers.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Our parks offer a choice of quality caravan accommodation.
The Sun (2010)
The resort will offer a choice of tennis camps for all ages, whether they are in small groups or taking private lessons.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
overwhelming choice
Instead, their strategists have muddied the waters by blinding us with an overwhelming choice of policies.
Times, Sunday Times
There's an overwhelming choice of flagstones, ranging from natural stone to reconstituted and imitation products.
Times, Sunday Times
But, oh, what an overwhelming choice.
Times, Sunday Times
The latter was the overwhelming choice.
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painful choice
Instead of trying to hector, lecture and frighten people into making bigger pension contributions, offer them a less immediately painful choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Eurozone governments have a simple but painful choice to make.
Times, Sunday Times
When they have to make a painful choice, they often cannot give the real reasons behind their actions.
Christianity Today
Yesterday's announcement could remove the painful choice.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a painful choice, but the schools board decided to sell one of its buildings, so that bills could be paid and agreements kept.
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parental choice
Surely politicians who favour localism, devolution and parental choice should now correct this anomaly?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The annual recrimination about parental choice teaches us that there are still not enough good schools.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It provided for a new degree of parental choice in the selection of schools.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is no good talking about parental choice without more schools for parents to choose between.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
personal choice
Whether you prefer the one-man band down the road or a big brand name is usually a question of personal choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Sitting for a relatively prosperous rural constituency, political activism was a personal choice rather than a political necessity.
Simon Ball THE GUARDSMEN (2004)
No women will be forced to wear the hijab - that is a personal choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
While environmental pollution is difficult for individuals to change, cigarette smoke is a personal choice that affects smokers and the people around them.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
His hair, still short back and sides by personal choice, was streaked with steel grey - more so than it had been even three years ago.
Hilton, John Buxton DISPLACED PERSON (2002)
preferred choice
Every previous party leader has been the preferred choice of the parliamentary party.
Times, Sunday Times
They will still sell 7.5million cars and remain the preferred choice for a vast army of motorists.
The Sun
The winner will not be entitled to specify their preferred choice of vehicle or pre-delivery personalisation.
The Sun
Although clearing becomes less significant with each year as grades improve and more achieve their preferred choice, it still accounted for about 10 per cent of admissions last summer.
Times, Sunday Times
Fixed-rate mortgages used to be the preferred choice for homeowners unsure about future changes in the cost of borrowing.
Times, Sunday Times
provide a choice
The site then provides a book choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
You can not fix social mobility without providing real choices for young people in their school years.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This, in turn, could help to provide more choice to families who were looking to rent.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
rational choice
The study was carried out to investigate one of the paradoxes of an area known as rational choice theory.
Times,Sunday Times
The tougher the penalty, the greater the cost of getting caught, and the rational choice may be not to risk it.
Times, Sunday Times
Human freedom consists in the exercise of will in rational choice.
The Times Literary Supplement
They make burglary and other crime a rational choice, especially given the low rate of detection.
Times, Sunday Times
That there were no objective universal criteria of rational choice?
The Times Literary Supplement
regret a choice
We do not and shall never regret this choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Surveys suggest that about one third of graduates regret their choice of course.
Times, Sunday Times
In the cold light of day the morning after, you may begin to regret your choice.
Times, Sunday Times
They may well live to regret their choice.
The Sun
Neither had cause to regret the choice.
Times,Sunday Times
restrict the choice
That would restrict the choice for young people and mean some cannot go to universities at which they have been offered a place.
Times,Sunday Times
However, experts give warning that such policies will restrict your choice of lawyer when it comes to starting a case.
Times, Sunday Times
In isolation none of these issues would present significant problems but together they severely restrict his choice of mortgage.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't restrict your choice of seasonal greenery to the tree - deck your halls with armfuls of holly and ivy from the same supplier.
Times, Sunday Times
The courts have been ambivalent in their reaction to such attempts to restrict the choice of counsel.
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risky choice
It was a risky choice of career in other ways.
Times, Sunday Times
Risky choice, too, you might think.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a risky choice of setting, though.
Times, Sunday Times
A wonderful, committed and resourceful player, but a risky choice because of concussion history, which limited him to 20 games last season.3.
Globe and Mail
Not a risky choice, but surely the right one.
Times, Sunday Times
sensible choice
You do not plump for the easy or even the sensible choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Many people for whom an annuity would be a sensible choice could end up taking riskier alternatives by going it alone.
Times, Sunday Times
The film tent always feels like a bit of a cop-out but, as the rain hits the mud it's a sensible choice.
Times, Sunday Times
In the working world, what may seem like a sensible choice could have an exciting outcome.
The Sun
When it comes to love, you could discover that making the sensible choice has a passion bonus.
The Sun
smart choice
So weigh up options, then make a smart choice.
The Sun
A smart choice and not too heavy on the wallet.
The Sun
Drive a diesel with excellent fuel economy and a low tax band and think you have made the smart choice?
Times, Sunday Times
For this reason, she was undoubtedly the smart choice as editor.
Times, Sunday Times
So it's a smart choice for the firm's bella figura.
Times, Sunday Times
stark choice
A billion people around the world face a stark choice - to drink potentially lethal water or nothing.
Times, Sunday Times
However, he fails to point out the stark choice that the captured agents were given.
Times, Sunday Times
People are faced with a stark choice: leave on our terms or face years under siege in boarded-up streets.
Times, Sunday Times
Audit committees are being given a stark choice: use a challenger firm or be subject to a joint audit.
Times, Sunday Times
Being faced with a stark choice may make her realise what she'd be throwing away.
The Sun
strategic choice
The strategic choice she makes could define the rest of her political career.
Times, Sunday Times
We have to be clear on risks and cuts like these reduce strategic choice.
The Sun
The paucity of support for the manpower also impugns the strategic choice of relying on boots on the ground rather than drones.
Times, Sunday Times
It would be a disastrous strategic choice made in the dubious hope of tactical gain.
Times, Sunday Times
But his scientific advisers have presented him with a strategic choice that he alone must make.
Times,Sunday Times
top choice
If their top choice has been eliminated, their second or lower preference counts.
Times, Sunday Times
By 17 and 18-years-old, the top choice was teacher, followed by psychologist and accountant.
Times, Sunday Times
A study found steak and ale pies were the top choice of footie fans.
The Sun
This was followed by similar rounds for the middle vote getter and finally for the top choice.
Christianity Today
The colour, cut and shape make this my top choice.
The Sun
tough choice
Instead of moving on, stay with a tough choice and make it together.
The Sun
The growers have a tough choice - risk more rain while waiting for the sun or harvest now.
Times, Sunday Times
If he doesn't rediscover the obduracy that once made him the toughest of opponents, the hitherto indulgent selectors may be left with a tough choice.
Times, Sunday Times
We may have to face a tough choice: be flat or be false.
Christianity Today
It's a tough choice, but that's what we elect governments for.
The Sun
unanimous choice
In many schools, university remains the unanimous choice.
Times, Sunday Times
He was the unanimous choice of the board and has proved extremely effective.
Times, Sunday Times
The judges called it their 'unanimous choice and a clear winner'.
Times, Sunday Times
It's the third straight year a player has been a unanimous choice in the preseason.
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He finished the 2009 season as the second highest points scorer in the competition and a unanimous choice as the leagues best fullback.
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unfortunate choice
That was an unfortunate choice of words, given the connotations, but both can recall only one spot of trouble from the crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
It's merely a cheap crack - though maybe that's a slightly unfortunate choice of words, given the circumstances.
Times, Sunday Times
An unfortunate choice of words slowed down the progress of any potential relationship.
Times, Sunday Times
An unfortunate choice by the picture library people.
Times, Sunday Times
So it looks like there are some things you just can't clean, and the time has come to splash out (oops, unfortunate choice of words there) on a new sofa.
Times, Sunday Times
user choice
We work hard to make sure our users understand what data we collect and how we use it, because we are committed to transparency and user choice.
Times, Sunday Times
User choice also encourages competition that drives vendors towards enhanced performance and lower costs.
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The edges of the overlapping flaps treated with a paste or adhesive and the method of securing the envelope or wrapper was a user choice.
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The advertisers have to abide by certain legal regulations set in place and respect users choices.
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The on-screen agent upon a users choice would tell jokes, facts, manage downloading using its download manager, sing songs and other functions.
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voter choice
Political science has defined three main drivers of voter choice: which party has the most effective leader?
Times, Sunday Times
Increased voter choice and control reduces the power and influence of the political elite to determine the political debate.
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We found no change in two other measures of competition, and there were no observed changes in voter choice the average number of legislative candidates per district race.
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wide choice
There is a wide choice of engines as well.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The poppy family offers us a wide choice for cultivation.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The island offers great beaches and a wide choice of restaurants and bars.
The Sun (2008)
wise choice
He was not the first choice for the papacy, but proved a wise choice.
Times, Sunday Times
A wise choice might be someone young and vigorous who would appeal to the left of the party.
Times,Sunday Times
A wise choice: his majority was just over 5,000.
Times,Sunday Times
A complex love situation isn't your style so make the wise choice.
The Sun
This, therefore, may not be a wise choice.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 选择
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