interpretive

Example Sentences

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In Washington, attorney David Sobel last month sued to find out how the interpretive sign about Senator Francis Griffith Newlands was removed from the fountain near his home.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

As Bill Barker, who portrayed Jefferson for 26 years before Smith, put it, interpretive misfires aren’t failures so much as proof of concept—“reminders that Colonial Williamsburg,” like the nation itself, “is a work in progress.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Theatergoers have to improvise their own interpretive strategies as the play shifts and shifts again.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Therefore, Jackson, unlike Kagan, did not resolve the interpretive issue here on the majority opinion’s textualist terms.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

Jamie, sweet Jamie—the interpretive liaison’s loving toeless Pobble of a brother, laughed and said with force, “No.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein