interpret
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"I would not interpret these findings as a reason for someone who is responding well to their current antidepressant to change treatment," he added.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Such insights are especially valuable in regions where gravity severely distorts space-time, making even the most powerful computer simulations difficult to interpret.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
When unrest erupts abroad, the U.S. is quick to interpret it as a warning for us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
It’s bad for democracy to throw raw data at people and hope that they interpret it.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Mr. Kapasi felt insulted that Mrs. Das should ask him to interpret her common, trivial little secret.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Democrats aren’t necessarily viewed more positively than Republicans right now, but Nabulsi believes they’re at least signaling an open line of communication with a message she interprets as “We are not here with hate.”
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
The immune system interprets this misplaced genetic material as a danger signal, triggering an inflammatory response.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
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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Those values "can be interpreted differently, and I think we have to embrace those differences."
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Some interpreted this as a sign that investors were taking Wall Street’s lofty expectations with a grain of salt.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The findings therefore should not be interpreted as proof that drinking extremely hot tea directly causes vascular disease.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Virtually no one at the time, however, interpreted it as Wood intended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
He interpreted Cluny’s order as the much-coveted promotion to second-in-command.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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But experts warn against interpreting the figures as a prediction of the election outcome.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Until now, interpreting those observations has been difficult without actual rock samples to examine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Severin added that the retired senior judges and leading barristers, who sat on the Commission, have "spent their careers interpreting complicated facts, dealing with witnesses and applying relevant weight to evidence".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Pène du Bois became deeply attached to Hopper and wrote some selfless essays interpreting and defending Hopper’s art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
I understood Hebrew well enough to read it, but I had always struggled with actually interpreting the passages.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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