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Further, two kinds of Pythagorean Fuzzy Topologies induced by Soft reflexive relations are investigated and an accuracy measure of a PFS is provided. Besides, based on the score function and these approximations of PFSs, an algorithm is constructed for ranking and selection of the decision-making alternatives. Although many MCDM (multiple criteria decision making) methods for PFSs have been proposed in previous studies, some of those cannot solve when a person is encountered with a two-sided matching MCDM problem. The proposed method is new in the literature. This newly proposed model solved the problem more accurately. 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