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A professional can help you parse your options, and maybe even remind you both of what drew you to each other in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
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
Thursday brings the June jobs report, which investors will parse closely for clues about the Fed’s next move on rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
It took Moody a moment to parse this question.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
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
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
Collins added that like others on the committee she will be looking for "clear and convincing signs" inflation is falling as she parses a range of incoming economic data to guide her policy views.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 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
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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
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A chairman determined to show he isn’t offering guidance might have reason not to move next month, if only to stop investors parsing every speech for a signal, said Forbes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
In the end, Schiller has a go at parsing her own motivations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
Eastern Daylight Time, is worth quoting and parsing:
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 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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