interpret
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He can spot a batsman's weakness and interpret that into what it means for his own plans very quickly.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Often we are swimming in information: recall alerts, traceback reports, lot codes, congressional inquiries, corporate ownership records, corrected test results, viral posts and, increasingly, apps designed to help us interpret the whole mess.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Researchers believe changes there may contribute to the tendency of people with depression to interpret experiences more negatively.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Yet many investors tend to interpret those records as warning signs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Gottman has taught his staff how to read every emotional nuance in people’s facial expressions and how to interpret seemingly ambiguous bits of dialogue.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Together, these abilities suggest that traveling waves may be central to how the brain interprets incoming information rather than simply reflecting background electrical activity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Arkeus’s AI-powered platform gathers and interprets optical data from proprietary sensors, including light not visible to the human eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Saylor was keen to point out “systemically important banks like Morgan Stanley and Citi, all with intent to integrate bitcoin into their operations,” which he interprets as an “embrace of bitcoin as a creditworthy instrument.”
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
That history of mistrust is an important backdrop to Thursday's escalation, shaping how Baku interprets every move coming from Tehran.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
For the King, or at least this is how Malory interprets him, was the patron saint of chivalry.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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"The changes we observed in glucose tolerance and gene expression could be interpreted as early biological signals related to metabolic or inflammatory processes," said Concha.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
That echoes prior comments he has made voicing confidence in Ueda’s handling of policy—a remark market participants interpreted as endorsing more rate hikes in Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
“People interpreted it that we’re trying to discourage all whistleblowers by the way we went about this prosecution,” Hochman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Federal prosecutors dispute everything from how Crenshaw interpreted the acting U.S. attorney’s decision to indict to communications with the attorney general’s office and televised comments Blanche himself made about this case.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2026
Phonetically interpreted signs were also used to “spell out” longer words, as a series of pictures each depicting the sound of one syllable.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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After seeing a stream of comments interpreting it as mocking the security forces, she deleted it quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The trust has provided guides for patients on how to access interpreting and translation services, increasing the use of interpreters by 50% in one year.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“We are interpreting the flows in August as clients seeking to add duration once yields hit historic highs,” a BlackRock spokesperson said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Using both earlier research and their own findings, the team also created a guide for interpreting possible tooth marks on fossils.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
The noise his crew was interpreting as that of enemy torpedoes, Herrick suggested, could actually be coming from the American ship’s own propeller.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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