opt

Example Sentences

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Central bankers in Japan, Indonesia and Taiwan opted to stay on the sidelines, as did their counterparts in the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal

He opts for a flashy shocker of a finale, which violates the play’s comic naturalism and seems faintly desperate.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Fed opted to leave rates unchanged Wednesday, in a move widely anticipated by Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the California case went beyond the religious-rights issue in the Maryland “opt out” case because it included a “subclass of parents” who objected without citing religion as the reason.

From Los Angeles Times

It opted to leave its benchmark discount rate at 2.000%, in line with the forecasts of all economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal