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
"This helps future missions interpret what they find and better understand where to look for signs of habitability."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 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
Large language models could search and interpret texts on a scale beyond the capacity of humans alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
It hadn’t been easy to frame, and the answer wasn’t easy to interpret, but then they never were, though she was becoming more sure-footed among the levels of meaning than she used to be.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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What those commitments are - and how Iran interprets them - will help determine whether this deal sticks.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
AI inference computing is divided into two main tasks: pre-fill, or the process by which a model interprets a user prompt, and decode, by which the model generates a response, one word at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 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
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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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
But Chey's purchase of company shares had been interpreted by investors as "a positive signal", he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
However, a conditional obligation to buy based on appearances, goals or triggers such as European qualification could be interpreted either way, depending on how likely it is that Garnacho ultimately completes a permanent move.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But I knew she wasn’t talking about her outfit, and I felt uncomfortable telling her she looked pretty, in case it might be interpreted as something more.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
Is gathering information fundamentally different from interpreting it?
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
The anonymous author of 1604 had been quite right to insist that the theory of perspective would provide the key to interpreting the image of the moon.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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