interpretive

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Therefore, Jackson, unlike Kagan, did not resolve the interpretive issue here on the majority opinion’s textualist terms.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

It already possesses broad interpretive and enforcement authority to prevent Chinese-linked firms of concern from accessing U.S. subsidies or embedding their influence in national-security sectors.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

But that would require an interpretive vision that the cuts, rearrangements and distracting instances of rewording fail to supply.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

The signage removal comes after a March 2025 executive order called for the review of over 400 national sites to remove or modify interpretive materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

But the brazen claim that slavery must be accepted unconditionally as a permanent feature of the national confederation was, if not wholly new, at least an interpretive clarification never made before in a national forum.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis