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interpretative

[in-tur-pri-tay-tiv] / ɪnˈtɜr prɪˌteɪ tɪv /


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Chief Justice Warren Burger’s majority opinion, which treats the actual language of the tax code as but a subordinate factor in the analysis, is a model of the dubious interpretative method then prevailing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

For example, some people still hold on to an interpretative framework known as dispensationalism, which includes the popular concept of the “Rapture.”

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

His death occurred just hours after speaking to a Times reporter about hiking in the heat while he took a break for some rare shade under a metal interpretative sign.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

The principle of charity is an interpretative principle that advises the reader to interpret the author’s statements in the most rational and best way possible.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

This explanatory or interpretative stage or aspect of myth may be first historically, or it may not be.

From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock


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