interpret
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He’s malleable and clueless about a lot of things, including whether it’s appropriate to interpret a female colleague’s nervous vomiting as an indicator that she’s pregnant.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
By identifying corresponding developmental stages, the scientists could make meaningful comparisons and interpret their experimental findings more reliably.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The incident highlights the difficulties companies can still face when using AI to speed up or simplify work processes, especially when it is used to interpret words in a specific context.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Once they started shooting, Fielder said he and Oppenheim were compelled by details they couldn’t interpret.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
He believes that dreams predict the future, if we know how to interpret them.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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To investigate how the public interprets hurricane forecasts, the research team surveyed residents of Florida and Georgia.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
What those commitments are - and how Iran interprets them - will help determine whether this deal sticks.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Arkeus’s AI-powered platform gathers and interprets optical data from proprietary sensors, including light not visible to the human eye.
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
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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Ultimately, the client quit over what I interpreted to be misunderstandings on both sides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Success and failure help to refine how the data is interpreted.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
"At the same time, the warning could be interpreted as stopping short of completely foreclosing inter-Korean dialogue: essentially telling Seoul not to interfere unless it has something substantial to offer."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
“The investigation remains active and ongoing, and this preliminary assessment should not be interpreted as a final determination of the circumstances surrounding his death,” the department said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Both Rosy’s and Maurice’s papers covered roughly the same ground and in each case interpreted their results in terms of the base pairs.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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However, interpreting these discoveries has been complicated by extensive damage and looting.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 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
Alan Mandell, an award-winning actor, arts patron and arts administrator, was best known for co-founding the San Quentin Drama Workshop and interpreting the plays of Samuel Beckett.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
They are also particularly interesting to geneticists because some have evolved unusual ways of interpreting DNA instructions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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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