interpret
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"Financial support from parents often carries a powerful emotional meaning and some siblings tend to interpret differences in support as signs of favouritism, unequal love or a lack of recognition."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Often we are swimming in information: recall alerts, traceback reports, lot codes, congressional inquiries, corporate ownership records, corrected test results, viral posts and, increasingly, apps designed to help us interpret the whole mess.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Yet many investors tend to interpret those records as warning signs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Whether the added punctuation has the effect the author imagines, she’s not wrong to point out that editorial decisions, once made, tend “to stick, informing how future readers will interpret a story or character.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Charming Miss Woodhouse! allow me to interpret this interesting silence. It confesses that you have long understood me.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
What those commitments are - and how Iran interprets them - will help determine whether this deal sticks.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Its on-board AI interprets the data, identifying objects even when mounted on autonomous craft with no remote connectivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Saylor was keen to point out “systemically important banks like Morgan Stanley and Citi, all with intent to integrate bitcoin into their operations,” which he interprets as an “embrace of bitcoin as a creditworthy instrument.”
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
The device detects that change and interprets it as a touch.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
But they also light up when the brain interprets something as pleasurable, even if the behavior doesn’t appear to have the survival value of, say, eating or procreating.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Instead, they expose an important ambiguity in how experiments designed to probe gravity's quantum properties may be interpreted.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
They have interpreted it, particularly its Paragraph 5, as acknowledging their ability to set the terms for opening the strait.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Federal prosecutors dispute everything from how Crenshaw interpreted the acting U.S. attorney’s decision to indict to communications with the attorney general’s office and televised comments Blanche himself made about this case.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2026
Many traders interpreted this as a bullish technical indicator.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The apparent recession of the galaxies, with the red shift interpreted through the Doppler effect, is not the only evidence for the Big Bang.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
It made headlines in February for announcing a new AI tool that can create personal tax strategies by interpreting financial documents without any manual entry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
It has also since signed a contract with a sign language interpreting company.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“In performing his music again, 70 years later, these artists are interpreting how his work impacts the music we have today.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
"This study has delivered the first framework for interpreting how megafauna fossils formed, survived, and changed in underwater caves," Miss Walker said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Which he couldn’t see, of course, but the silence no doubt had a particular edge that he was expert at interpreting.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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