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parse

[pahrs, pahrz] / pɑrs, pɑrz /




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My English teachers and literature professors were probably too tired to parse such nuance, and I don’t blame them.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Conceived together, these sections parse examples from socialist history and form connections between the past and present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Investors will also be looking forward to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s keynote address from the Jackson Hole, Wyo., economic-policy symposium on Friday, hoping to parse indications of the Fed’s strategy on interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

As much of Wall Street on Wednesday tried to parse whether the latest round of fighting would last, some investors also began looking to markets’ next leghigher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

I file the fact away for later, another piece of a puzzle I ain’t sure I understand or even want to parse.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

And that’s a common scenario for AT&T as it parses through all the options out there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

Throughout the album, which arrived in January, Wolf parses the past by mulling how others used to treat her and how she felt about herself.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

"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

This morning, traders parsed reports that Iran is making a new proposal to reopen the strait and potentially restart talks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The LAPD’s Nike case has been parsed in the online sneakerhead community, with questions raised about how much local dealers knew — or should have known — about the origins of their merchandise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Reporters programmatically extracted compensation tables, footnotes and other explanations of perquisites mentioned in the filings and fed the results to an LLM which parsed the amount, type and beneficiary of each perk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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

Half of them never showed up, or, when they did, they slept through the lesson or nodded off in the middle of Miss Brown’s carefully parsed sentences.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is parsing records of trades made before a social-media post by President Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

If a command was too complex, the game’s simple parsing engine wouldn’t be able to understand it.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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