parse
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Unsettling to many, beloved by more, he refused to explain his work, allowing and challenging his audience to parse through it and imbue their own meanings and discoveries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Market participants will parse the minutes for validation or contrast with the meeting’s hawkish comments,” the team says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
And it might not be easy to parse out which employees would be best suited for these products.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
If a formal agreement is announced this shortened-trading week, investors will be eager to parse the details–especially around the Strait of Hormuz and how quickly it can be fully reopened to maritime traffic.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
I file the fact away for later, another piece of a puzzle I ain’t sure I understand or even want to parse.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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This is the little-known but prescient speech that Saladin Ambar expertly parses and intriguingly reinterprets in “Murder on the Mississippi.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
A good debate — or one that’s worth its while — illuminates issues, parses differences and sheds light on the persona of its participants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Throughout the album, which arrived in January, Wolf parses the past by mulling how others used to treat her and how she felt about herself.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
Collins added that like others on the committee she will be looking for "clear and convincing signs" inflation is falling as she parses a range of incoming economic data to guide her policy views.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2022
"The rover currently parses the signal into bytes, then identifies the specific sequence the Hab sends. That way, natural radio waves won't throw off the homing. If the bytes aren't right, the rover ignores them."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Together, Flynn and Teruko parsed through her life stories to give the show an arc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
For his part, Thomas writes as though history resides principally in legal texts, 19th-century dictionaries, and carefully parsed debates over sovereignty.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yardeni and his team parsed the official data released monthly by the Treasury Department, and found that foreign investors poured more than $1.4 trillion into U.S. assets during the 12 months through April 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 2026
JGBs edged higher in price terms in the morning Tokyo session as investors parsed the potential ramifications of the Middle East conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
They'll be quoted, parsed, fact-checked, eviscerated by those who disagree, and then forgotten in the wake of new blurbs that come out tomorrow.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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This is the part I’m having trouble parsing.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
In the end, Schiller has a go at parsing her own motivations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
For investors parsing the regulatory filings, these industry trends supporting the stock carry far more weight than a few automated transactions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
He first discovered the site after parsing a thread on Reddit about the best-looking websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Eating well, healthy?—and parsing every word for tone and nuance, as if his sentences are a code I can crack.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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