interpret
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It’s all about how you interpret them, how you wear them and how you design them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
It’s bad for democracy to throw raw data at people and hope that they interpret it.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Using images of a male and female with visible differences, we tested five popular AI tools to understand if and how they would interpret the prompt "make this person normal".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Korean equity market is a weathervane for sentiment in the global artificial-intelligence trade and a leading indicator for how investors interpret the growth prospects of America’s biggest AI stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
A stranger might reasonably interpret my brother's language as a lack of respect and view my father's response as a form of shameful surrender.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Democrats aren’t necessarily viewed more positively than Republicans right now, but Nabulsi believes they’re at least signaling an open line of communication with a message she interprets as “We are not here with hate.”
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Rather than attempting to eliminate every pain signal, these approaches aim to change how the brain interprets and responds to the experience.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Now, a Jefferies market intelligence analyst interprets the current wobble as one of the last attractive opportunities to build exposure ahead of what he expects to be a strong November and December.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
A "reasoning model" trained on task-specific examples interprets the goal and formulates Phantom's action plan.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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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Some interpreted this as a sign that investors were taking Wall Street’s lofty expectations with a grain of salt.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Which is the way this gets interpreted by some people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Even slightly interpreted data is of no use to anyone.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
"For these reasons, the 70 percent storage level value must be interpreted flexibly and considered in light of the overall supply situation," the ministry spokeswoman said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
What had they discovered that could not be interpreted as plausible, though exceptional, coincidence?
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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But experts warn against interpreting the figures as a prediction of the election outcome.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
However, interpreting these records depends on knowing when each layer formed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 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
Instead of proof, Bacon introduced the concept of interpretation; where before scholars had written about interpreting books, now Bacon introduced the idea of ‘the interpretation of nature’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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