parse
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To audiences, it’s another element of her personality to parse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The models also struggled to parse negation correctly, as in “take with food” versus “don’t take with food.”
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
Others fill out a phrase’s rhythm, which can also make the sentence easier for the reader to parse.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Bank of America parses its customers’ bank and credit card accounts to see who is receiving wages or unemployment benefits to gauge the state of the labor market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
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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That’s the question everyone is trying to figure out, as the 32-page agreement is parsed, with pundits pouring over minutiae of cable streaming and tax credits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
—Asian equities were mostly lower as investors parsed valuations following Wall Street’s recent rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
They'll be quoted, parsed, fact-checked, eviscerated by those who disagree, and then forgotten in the wake of new blurbs that come out tomorrow.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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This is the part I’m having trouble parsing.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
In the end, Schiller has a go at parsing her own motivations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“I think we’re more steeped in storytelling than we’ve ever been,” he said, “yet we’re worse at parsing it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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 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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