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interpretation

[in-tur-pri-tay-shuhn] / ɪnˌtɜr prɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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However, the researchers emphasize that an all-female burial site is not the only possible interpretation of the evidence.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Another factor was the "very limited availability" of a suitable site in Newport, although the council said its long-term ambition was "to enhance public interpretation of the ship".

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

A work this vast cannot be exhausted by one interpretation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Playwright Kat Chandler’s interpretation leaves open the question of whether our impressions of its witch are unwarranted or dead right, further muddling our judgment with the introduction of Carrie-Anne Moss’ university professor, Katherine Hargrove.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Another interpretation of the US origin myth found in some history books is the idea that relations between the Native people and the European Americans should be viewed as a cultural conflict.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Ms. Ferrer, who was born in Cuba and raised in the U.S., writes history above political partisanship and refuses “the binary interpretations imposed from on high in Washington and Havana and Miami.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Rather than rehashing traditional compositions, the group recognizes these sorely untapped sounds as living and malleable, creating new interpretations that bring them to our times without losing an ounce of their essence and verve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

He said he was not looking for "historical interpretations of IPA".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Despite a request from litigants to overturn prior rulings in Kisor, a slim majority of the court ruled that judges were still required to defer to an agency’s interpretations of its regulations.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

But these state-based deliberations quite naturally tended to focus on local or regional interpretations of the Constitution’s rather elliptical handling of the forbidden subject.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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