interpret
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“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
This first installment grapples with the question of whether “we the people” can restore our power to interpret the Constitution.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Perhaps the same will be true with “Obsession”; Curry Barker’s copycats will try and fail to interpret the trials of dating when personality is a facade, and I’ll be left eating crow.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The database could also improve scientists' ability to interpret the history recorded inside meteorites and asteroid fragments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
This could be used to interpret the hidden meaning of words.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
Saylor was keen to point out “systemically important banks like Morgan Stanley and Citi, all with intent to integrate bitcoin into their operations,” which he interprets as an “embrace of bitcoin as a creditworthy instrument.”
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 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
The director has said that he interprets the death wish in the opera as part of the cycle of rebirth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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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Yet Tuchel insists it should not be interpreted as a loss of faith.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The Interior Department finalized the changes to its regulations last week, overturning five decades of precedent in how the law is interpreted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Middle East analysts interpreted the move as a signal that Hamas may be willing to engage, but cautioned that it was too early to proclaim progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The experiments were conducted in mice and human cells grown in the laboratory, not in cancer patients, so the results should not be interpreted as evidence that creatine supplements improve cancer treatment in people.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
He had suddenly remembered that, in Tarifa, there was an old woman who interpreted dreams.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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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
Women come from other groups, but in worlds where female mobility is a common pattern, from the great apes to human societies, interpreting this signal immediately becomes more subtle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
But in Barbara, Kavanaugh was willing to consider evidence about modern air travel when interpreting that amendment.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
Piggy knelt by him, one hand on the great shell, listening and interpreting to the assembly.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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