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verb

deem

CEFR B2

to judge or consider something to be a particular way

In a sentence

Six example sentences with deem, each labelled with its topic.

  • The inspector deemed the staircase unsafe, and the hall stayed closed until a builder replaced every cracked tread.

    Law

  • The physiotherapist deemed him ready to run again only after he could hop twenty times without favoring the ankle.

    Fitness

  • The competition judges deemed the entry ineligible because the sky had clearly been replaced with one from another picture.

    Photography

  • The board deemed the offer too low and sent it back with a single sentence suggesting the buyer try again.

    Business

  • Reviewers deemed the sample too small to support the claim, and the authors added two hundred more subjects.

    Science

  • The league deemed the floor unsafe after the leak, and the game moved to a college gym across town.

    Basketball

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