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Attempting to construe the uncivilized and norms-busting battle that Democrats found themselves in, Garcia likened the politics of Trump's second term to a "bar fight."

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025

Circuit Court of Appeals, which he said could construe the law differently, or file a fresh lawsuit in state court.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

“And if there’s an ambiguity, why would we construe it … against democracy?”

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2024

"A second cut would display their fears more openly and indicates greater weakness; we construe a second cut as a bearish signal unless the cuts are extremely substantive."

From Reuters ● May 31, 2023

Once he understood this, and once he could construe it as his own idea, Joe Cassano changed his mind.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

How they decide — their reasoning — might have momentous implications for how the current court construes the Constitution.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021

What emerges on the other side of the apocalypse as “Appleseed” construes it will barely resemble what went into it.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

As in none of your business, which often construes to “she’s fine” or “doing well” or “good,” depending on who asked.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019

Simon construes constitutional protection from government intrusion as controls against human listening in on phone calls or reading messages.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2013

A brat learns his A B C a shade quicker than other children, or construes Qui fit Maecenas with tolerable correctness; and straightway the doting mother thinks her lad is an embryo Canning.

From The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Cliches were wielded like shields Tuesday, protecting against the imminent threat of social clips construed as bulletin board material.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Tesla shares rose 5.4% to $376.37 after the electric-car maker scheduled an event related to its Cybercab, which investors construed as the likely commercial launch of the long-awaited robotaxi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

As we have shown, courts long interpreted these life exceptions to protect physicians acting in good faith to preserve a patient’s life—and these actors construed “life” generously and with deference to physicians’ professional judgment.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

But the BBC saw no behaviour and heard no language that could be construed as offensive.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Fortunately these were in Italian, and so the obvious boredom of the foreign guests did not need to be construed as impoliteness.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

In construing the meaning of an extraterrestrial dispatch, those who give it a go often try to anticipate what the message might be trying to say.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 3, 2023

"That is consistent with construing the speech and debate argument as a limited immunity like executive privilege. It also corresponds to the most important evidence from Pence," he tweeted.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2023

“If you want to explain the different outcomes in people, it may be differences in how people are construing their experiences.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021

Justice Department lawyers contend that Judge Peter J. Messitte of United States District Court in Greenbelt, Md., has wrongly interpreted the meaning of the emoluments clauses, construing the bans against corruption far too broadly.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018

He translated fully to each group of creatures the Abbot’s message, in turn construing back to the Father Abbot their grateful thanks with pledges of help and loyalty to Redwall Abbey.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques