interpretive

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Theatergoers have to improvise their own interpretive strategies as the play shifts and shifts again.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

And Kate Bush’s immortal 1978 single, with its swooping, operatic drama, interpretive dance–filled video and ghostly narrator only strengthened the book’s rep as a tale of exquisitely tortured love.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

Rather, she wrote, “the ordinary tools of statutory interpretation amply support today’s result,” without any resort to rules that put “a thumb on the interpretive scales.”

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2026

And right now, with the yield curve doing interpretive dance and credit spreads twitching like a politician’s eye during a deposition, banks have decided that the most profitable thing they can do is absolutely nothing.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 5, 2025

“My sophomore year, I took set design when I couldn’t get into interpretive dance. I’m pretty good at building things.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray