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parse

[pahrs, pahrz] / pɑrs, pɑrz /




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Unsettling to many, beloved by more, he refused to explain his work, allowing and challenging his audience to parse through it and imbue their own meanings and discoveries.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Investors in coming days will parse a number of much-awaited corporate earnings reports, including Alphabet, Tesla, IBM and Intel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“Market participants will parse the minutes for validation or contrast with the meeting’s hawkish comments,” the team says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

And it might not be easy to parse out which employees would be best suited for these products.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

But to encourage the reader to parse it as a noun phrase, he should have set up a context in which the reader indeed expects to see a noun phrase.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Bank of America parses its customers’ bank and credit card accounts to see who is receiving wages or unemployment benefits to gauge the state of the labor market.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 8, 2025

Rebecca Onion parses the book for clues that could explain the film’s cryptic ending.

From Slate Dec. 15, 2023

A good debate — or one that’s worth its while — illuminates issues, parses differences and sheds light on the persona of its participants.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 2023

Collins added that like others on the committee she will be looking for "clear and convincing signs" inflation is falling as she parses a range of incoming economic data to guide her policy views.

From Reuters Sep. 26, 2022

"The rover currently parses the signal into bytes, then identifies the specific sequence the Hab sends. That way, natural radio waves won't throw off the homing. If the bytes aren't right, the rover ignores them."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

About 74% of returns that filed a capital gain in 2022 had household incomes of less than $200,000, according to Internal Revenue Service data parsed by Americans for Tax Reform.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

For his part, Thomas writes as though history resides principally in legal texts, 19th-century dictionaries, and carefully parsed debates over sovereignty.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

Yardeni and his team parsed the official data released monthly by the Treasury Department, and found that foreign investors poured more than $1.4 trillion into U.S. assets during the 12 months through April 2026.

From MarketWatch Jun. 28, 2026

Asian equity markets and oil prices were mixed early Tuesday as investors parsed developments in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

As I parsed Latin sentences, I noted 03-01’s interest in my progress.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

It is a powerful distinction, though Mr. Rebeiro’s penchant for parsing interpretive categories occasionally makes a straightforward insight more juridically elaborate than it needs to be.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

For investors parsing the regulatory filings, these industry trends supporting the stock carry far more weight than a few automated transactions.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Eastern Daylight Time, is worth quoting and parsing:

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

The phrase might also carry a double meaning, one Grohl is still parsing.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Eating well, healthy?—and parsing every word for tone and nuance, as if his sentences are a code I can crack.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline




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