interpret
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Under normal circumstances, gold investors might immediately interpret that as bullish.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Companies that sell a possible cancer signal should also explain who will interpret the results, coordinate the next tests, and help patients manage the costs.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Much of what happens next for the yen will depend on U.S. inflation data due this week and how markets interpret any new signals from either central bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
That constraint can help physicists design and interpret future experiments.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
This could be used to interpret the hidden meaning of words.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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The new chair has made a point of not providing his own economic forecasts or discussing how he interprets the most recent economic data.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
What those commitments are - and how Iran interprets them - will help determine whether this deal sticks.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
The device detects that change and interprets it as a touch.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
The director has said that he interprets the death wish in the opera as part of the cycle of rebirth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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
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The researchers interpreted those findings as evidence that the sweetener was being chemically altered inside the animals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
But that being said, you have to keep in mind that we are getting this information secondhand, it’s a juror note that’s being interpreted and characterized by Reddington.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Many have interpreted the police report pointing to the role of Moroccan security forces in the July crossing as reinforcing this theory, although Sánchez maintained there was no solid evidence of government involvement.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Scientists first described Praearcturus gigas in 1871, but at the time it was interpreted as a giant crustacean resembling a woodlouse.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Since some of the other students chose to grow beards and mustaches, his own beard was sometimes interpreted as a personal choice instead of a mandate of faith.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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After seeing a stream of comments interpreting it as mocking the security forces, she deleted it quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
As Amini wrote of the glass blade, “the perfection of this form is preserved only with the mental space shared between the conceptualizing artist and the interpreting artist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It has also since signed a contract with a sign language interpreting company.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“We are interpreting the flows in August as clients seeking to add duration once yields hit historic highs,” a BlackRock spokesperson said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
The noise his crew was interpreting as that of enemy torpedoes, Herrick suggested, could actually be coming from the American ship’s own propeller.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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