interpret
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The conclusion could significantly affect how scientists interpret future discoveries on Europa.
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
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
“You shall be able to interpret for me all of these marks...recalling the songs.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The garment interprets the artwork, which may or may not have inspired the garment’s design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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
Like many autistic people, Haight’s mind interprets language in its most literal sense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
That history of mistrust is an important backdrop to Thursday's escalation, shaping how Baku interprets every move coming from Tehran.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 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
Traditionally, sociologists interpreted his words as drawing a hard line between studying the truth and acting on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Yet Tuchel insists it should not be interpreted as a loss of faith.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
"It's more dangerous to accept the supernatural explanations," he warned, noting that conditions ranging from schizophrenia to Tourette's syndrome were once interpreted as spirit possession.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Mexican boxer Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez interpreted the scene as the Argentine captain deliberately kicking the jersey and accused him of disrespecting Mexico — an allegation that Messi denied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Until Columbus demonstrated that classical geography was hopelessly misconceived, the assumption was that the arguments of the ancients needed to be interpreted, not challenged.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
Whispers swept the room; Dumbledore, interpreting them correctly, merely smiled and shook his purple-and-gold sleeve over his injury.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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