parse
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My English teachers and literature professors were probably too tired to parse such nuance, and I don’t blame them.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Newbies will have to parse the gear thingy in the console, three controllers meant to evoke the gated shifters of yore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Investors will also be looking forward to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s keynote address from the Jackson Hole, Wyo., economic-policy symposium on Friday, hoping to parse indications of the Fed’s strategy on interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
He heard Kaisha and Reg say something to him, but he couldn’t parse the words, and it was like all the oxygen in the room had been sucked out.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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Bank of America parses its customers’ bank and credit card accounts to see who is receiving wages or unemployment benefits to gauge the state of the labor market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
She can hear it in the audible gasps of onlookers as she parses a moment in the pandemic that they had forgotten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 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
Even as the Fed parses the progress it has made on inflation, she said it would "stay the course."
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2023
"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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This morning, traders parsed reports that Iran is making a new proposal to reopen the strait and potentially restart talks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
Suppose a reader has successfully parsed a sentence and now has an understanding of who did what to whom or what is true of what.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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The picture shocked Al-Drimly, triggering emotions he was still parsing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
A chairman determined to show he isn’t offering guidance might have reason not to move next month, if only to stop investors parsing every speech for a signal, said Forbes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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
Eastern Daylight Time, is worth quoting and parsing:
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Earlier I mentioned that holding the branches of a tree in memory is one of the two cognitive challenges in parsing a sentence.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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