interpret
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Most investors mistakenly interpret a higher price/earnings ratio as an unambiguously bearish indicator.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
The researchers say this newly recognized role of superheating could help volcanologists better interpret monitoring data and improve forecasts of eruption behavior.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Consumers will interpret reclassification as FDA approval,” Adriane Fugh-Berman, a critic of the drug industry and director of a watchdog organization that studies pharmaceutical marketing, said Thursday at the meeting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Plus, China’s Moonshot AI takes on U.S. rivals and how readers interpret the Chinese economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
I guess they didn’t trust me to interpret for my parents.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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The garment interprets the artwork, which may or may not have inspired the garment’s design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
It interprets Coachella as a cultural event, deciding what matters, where to look, and how the festival is ultimately remembered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
That history of mistrust is an important backdrop to Thursday's escalation, shaping how Baku interprets every move coming from Tehran.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Huber interprets Zuckerberg’s statement as a sign that nobody really knows how and when these massive investments will pay off — not even the leaders of the companies doing the spending.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
For the King, or at least this is how Malory interprets him, was the patron saint of chivalry.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Khokhar describes this as "vague" and raises questions about how it might be interpreted.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The announcement of increased capex at SpaceX was interpreted negatively by traders and investors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The general definition of state-of-the-art capabilities could be interpreted differently by makers of closed models and the White House, potentially creating confusion about which models fall into the category, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
One of them, “Free and Queer: Black Californian Roots of Gay Liberation,” explores how culture, across print, visual art and performance, has interpreted and shaped Black queer social and political movements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
But he calmly listened to Gist as he interpreted Half King’s words.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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Gustavo Duque, mayor of Chacao, a middle-class Caracas neighbourhood, urges caution in interpreting the red sign too simply.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
But these views deserve no weight in interpreting the amendments’ transformative guarantees.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
Women come from other groups, but in worlds where female mobility is a common pattern, from the great apes to human societies, interpreting this signal immediately becomes more subtle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Once you have isolated the pure news about a company, there are several rules for interpreting it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026
Instead of proof, Bacon introduced the concept of interpretation; where before scholars had written about interpreting books, now Bacon introduced the idea of ‘the interpretation of nature’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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