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
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
Still, with inflation elevated and longer-dated Treasury yields near their highest levels in years, tightening financial conditions are forcing investors to parse such companies’ performances more closely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Zeitoun was deeply suspicious, still trying to parse how this man had ended up in their cage, and what his intentions might be.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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And that’s a common scenario for AT&T as it parses through all the options out there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
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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That’s the question everyone is trying to figure out, as the 32-page agreement is parsed, with pundits pouring over minutiae of cable streaming and tax credits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
About 74% of returns that filed a capital gain in 2022 had household incomes of less than $200,000, according to Internal Revenue Service data parsed by Americans for Tax Reform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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
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
The legal parsing of what technically violates a rule is not the same as the ethical question of what a Cabinet secretary should be doing with his time and public platform.
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
The meaningless flow of words might have left the audience with the sense that it was incapable of parsing the deep complexity of Morgan Stanley’s bond trading business.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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