interpreted

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Interpreted charitably, the moves Licht made during his 13 months as CEO were meant to right what many had deemed a sinking ship.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2023

Interpreted for her aunts when they went into labor and needed to understand what the gringa nurses were saying at the hospital.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2016

HG Wells admired the way it went “ploughing up through the traffic” and Joseph Stella put it at the centre of his 1922 skyscraper-romancing five-panel, Voice of the City of New York Interpreted.

From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2015

Interpreted a different way, these face-saving tragic turns could well be performed as farce: so ridiculous are the extremes the characters turn to in the name of propriety that they cease to be proper.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2013

"Interpreted in ethical terms, it is that each individual ought to be subject to the effects of its own nature and resulting conduct"; and throughout sub-human life this rule holds without qualification.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.