interpretation
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This interpretation could explain why the 364-day calendar occupies such a prominent place in the Qumran writings even though it appears to have vanished from practical historical use.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Tony’s hallucinations might be open to psychiatric interpretation, but Dick’s are true, as well as dramatically strategic: Craziness like Tony’s is only so interesting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
For an artist it begs for interpretation — and I just have to illustrate it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Part of the reason is that so many decisions are subjective and open to interpretation.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“We’d been wrong in our interpretation of what was going on,” said Charlie.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Following the recent success of the new Christopher Nolan film based on the epic poem, curators said they hoped there would be renewed interest in artists' interpretations of Homer's work.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
That makes these ideas different from many interpretations of quantum mechanics.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
The sanitised history has left space for romanticised interpretations among youths frustrated by long working hours and intense competition in education and the job market.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Most of the Iranian artists left their instructions generously open-ended, inviting the interpretations and transmutations of their U.S. peers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
But these state-based deliberations quite naturally tended to focus on local or regional interpretations of the Constitution’s rather elliptical handling of the forbidden subject.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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