interpreting

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Privacy experts and former department employees say the administration is aggressively interpreting existing rules and ignoring limits set by prior administrations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Central banks in 2022 were behind the curve, mistakenly interpreting the pick-up in inflation as “transitory” and then being obliged to hike aggressively when it became clear it was more threatening than that.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

“In these times right now we’re in, there’s a lot of value in the documents and interpreting them in the way they’re supposed to be interpreted,” Phil said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Another aspect of the job is interpreting economic data for the president.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Hints of past events can be found in Native American oral traditions, to be sure, but these are concerned more with interpreting eternal truths than the details of journalism and history.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann