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parse

[pahrs, pahrz] / pɑrs, pɑrz /




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Unsettling to many, beloved by more, he refused to explain his work, allowing and challenging his audience to parse through it and imbue their own meanings and discoveries.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Investors will parse the data for clues on the Federal Reserve’s policy path, after the central bank’s last meeting boosted rate-hike expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

And it might not be easy to parse out which employees would be best suited for these products.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

If a formal agreement is announced this shortened-trading week, investors will be eager to parse the details–especially around the Strait of Hormuz and how quickly it can be fully reopened to maritime traffic.

From Barron's Jun. 14, 2026

Ambata did, but Kathy still could not parse the words.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

This is the little-known but prescient speech that Saladin Ambar expertly parses and intriguingly reinterprets in “Murder on the Mississippi.”

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 7, 2025

Rebecca Onion parses the book for clues that could explain the film’s cryptic ending.

From Slate Dec. 15, 2023

She can hear it in the audible gasps of onlookers as she parses a moment in the pandemic that they had forgotten.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2023

The Long Short-Term Memory network, originally developed to help machines learn human languages, parses detailed inflation data to spot patterns that helps it predict the Consumer Price Index in the future.

From Reuters Aug. 10, 2022

"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

About 74% of returns that filed a capital gain in 2022 had household incomes of less than $200,000, according to Internal Revenue Service data parsed by Americans for Tax Reform.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 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

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

Yardeni and his team parsed the official data released monthly by the Treasury Department, and found that foreign investors poured more than $1.4 trillion into U.S. assets during the 12 months through April 2026.

From MarketWatch Jun. 28, 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

This is the part I’m having trouble parsing.

From Slate Aug. 22, 2026

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

The phrase might also carry a double meaning, one Grohl is still parsing.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

We must move beyond parsing each word, every day, searching for meaning in gibberish.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2026

The meaningless flow of words might have left the audience with the sense that it was incapable of parsing the deep complexity of Morgan Stanley’s bond trading business.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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