hold
The story was deemed too controversial and so they spiked it.他们认为这篇报道争议太大而拒绝刊登。
She is currently deemed to be the best British athlete.
This survey is deemed to be a reliable barometer of public opinion.
Safflower oil is low in the sort of fats that are deemed to be bad for people's health.
It is deemed bad manners in some cultures to speak with your mouth full of food.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Guessing, supposing and suspecting
approximate
as muchidiom
call
conjecture
consider
delusional
fall
guess
jump
mark
mark someone down as something
misjudge
misjudgment
pluck
pluck something out of the airidiom
speculate
supposably
surmise
think of something
unguessable

deem | American Dictionary

deem
verb[ T ]
us/dim/
to consider or judge:
The president asked Congress for authority to take whatever steps he deemed necessary, including the use of force.

Examples of deem

deem
Moreover, a panel is now allowed to seek information and technical advice from any individual or body which it deems appropriate.
Responses determined to be scorable were utterances that had sufficient structure to be deemed full or partial passive sentences or full or partial active sentences.
All three use anecdote and narrative to impart to the reader a sense of the lived experience of the poor, ordinary and those deemed anti-social.
Even if a pattern is deemed to be unexpected and valid, it may not be possible to act upon it.
Because these prior studies employed similar methods of data collection, it was deemed reasonable to compile the data together for the present study.
This situation could be deemed problematic on two counts.
This is an aspect of characterization that some critics have deemed proto-modernist.
Moreover, his music may lack innovation and hence be deemed somewhat inconsequential.
Still, the couple deemed it wise to do so, possibly anticipating future problems.
Successful economic development was deemed the key to national survival.
Speculative farmers hope for the occasional extraordinary profits but are deemed mere growers of necessary food.
Such amendments are deemed necessary, since in a world of full insurance coverage individuals would have no incentive to restrict treatment.
We also work up to alpha conversion on processes in transition systems, for which alpha convertible agents are deemed to have the same transitions.
This way the system could pay more attention to the saturation uncommon map if it deems that this map is the salient map.
The attempt to determine the relative importance of each is thus deemed futile and prone to ideological bias.
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