interpret
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As the late Justice Antonin Scalia stressed, legislative floor explanations are weak evidence for the core originalist question: How would a contemporary informed reader interpret the words as enacted?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The fact: Individual rattlesnakes, just like individual people, vary greatly in how they interpret threats, Pauly said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Across multiple experiments, the researchers consistently identified other ways to interpret the same data.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
Historians widely interpret such violence as a counterrevolutionary response to the strength of socialist and labor movements after the First World War.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
“Women have just as good a right to interpret and twist the Bible to their own advantage as men have always twisted it and turned it to theirs,” she told a reporter.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
