interpretive

Example Sentences

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Theatergoers have to improvise their own interpretive strategies as the play shifts and shifts again.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Rather, she wrote, “the ordinary tools of statutory interpretation amply support today’s result,” without any resort to rules that put “a thumb on the interpretive scales.”

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2026

It already possesses broad interpretive and enforcement authority to prevent Chinese-linked firms of concern from accessing U.S. subsidies or embedding their influence in national-security sectors.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

The signage removal comes after a March 2025 executive order called for the review of over 400 national sites to remove or modify interpretive materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

Jamie, sweet Jamie—the interpretive liaison’s loving toeless Pobble of a brother, laughed and said with force, “No.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein