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Circuit Court of Appeals, which he said could construe the law differently, or file a fresh lawsuit in state court.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

Against this backdrop, why, asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, should the Supreme Court construe a purported ambiguity as narrowly as possible?

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2023

Prosecutors routinely use it in cases where they can construe harm to the federal government.

From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2023

I regret that my attempt to find a way to participate in the course in a manner that would have satisfied these concerns has enabled some to construe a potential conflict of interest.

From BBC ● May 24, 2023

Mammachi knew this, but preferred to construe Margaret Kochamma’s silence as a tacit acceptance of payment for the favors Mammachi imagined she bestowed on her son.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

How they decide — their reasoning — might have momentous implications for how the current court construes the Constitution.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021

What emerges on the other side of the apocalypse as “Appleseed” construes it will barely resemble what went into it.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

As in none of your business, which often construes to “she’s fine” or “doing well” or “good,” depending on who asked.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019

Simon construes constitutional protection from government intrusion as controls against human listening in on phone calls or reading messages.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2013

The public prosecutor construes section 100 to the effect that the legislator has therein intended to prohibit the use of reason and proscribe the moral nature of man.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke

As we have shown, courts long interpreted these life exceptions to protect physicians acting in good faith to preserve a patient’s life—and these actors construed “life” generously and with deference to physicians’ professional judgment.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

Dabaie was asked by CNN whether the congressman’s comments can be construed as acknowledging that he cheated on his wife, while denying doing anything illegal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026

Some of these situational advantages could be construed as luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

"To the uninformed American listener, the ongoing talks between Denmark and Greenland might have been construed as if Greenland's secession from Denmark was imminent," said Greenland specialist Mikaela Engell.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

He waits for her to begin, his expression bearing something that could be construed as very mild interest.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Congress, through explicit statutory text, and the Supreme Court, in construing less explicit language, have turned to the “disparate impact” framework to address that second truth.

From Slate ● May 4, 2025

In construing the meaning of an extraterrestrial dispatch, those who give it a go often try to anticipate what the message might be trying to say.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 3, 2023

"That is consistent with construing the speech and debate argument as a limited immunity like executive privilege. It also corresponds to the most important evidence from Pence," he tweeted.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2023

Within a decade, however, the Court had radically narrowed the scope of that amendment, construing it as “a vehicle for protecting corporate rights rather than those of the former slaves.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

He translated fully to each group of creatures the Abbot’s message, in turn construing back to the Father Abbot their grateful thanks with pledges of help and loyalty to Redwall Abbey.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques