interpret
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He’s malleable and clueless about a lot of things, including whether it’s appropriate to interpret a female colleague’s nervous vomiting as an indicator that she’s pregnant.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
One challenge is that bright sunlight can interfere with the rover's navigation cameras, making it harder for its software to interpret the terrain.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
The incident highlights the difficulties companies can still face when using AI to speed up or simplify work processes, especially when it is used to interpret words in a specific context.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Once they started shooting, Fielder said he and Oppenheim were compelled by details they couldn’t interpret.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
He believes that dreams predict the future, if we know how to interpret them.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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To investigate how the public interprets hurricane forecasts, the research team surveyed residents of Florida and Georgia.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Now, a Jefferies market intelligence analyst interprets the current wobble as one of the last attractive opportunities to build exposure ahead of what he expects to be a strong November and December.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
A "reasoning model" trained on task-specific examples interprets the goal and formulates Phantom's action plan.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
AI software the company calls Hyperintuition interprets your movements to deliver the right force.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
For the King, or at least this is how Malory interprets him, was the patron saint of chivalry.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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While previous research has shown that gestures and vocal cues influence how speech is interpreted, much less has been known about how facial movements affect perceptions of confidence.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Ultimately, the client quit over what I interpreted to be misunderstandings on both sides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
The circumstances surrounding the release of “Toxicity” became even more surreal one week later, when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed the country and altered the way some listeners interpreted the album.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The immune findings are intriguing, but they should not be interpreted as proof that taking D3 will prevent a particular infection.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
In any case, despite the anti- climactic results, the test results were interpreted by the AEC as validating Livermore’s role as the developer of “new ideas” in thermonuclear technology.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Pène du Bois became deeply attached to Hopper and wrote some selfless essays interpreting and defending Hopper’s art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Yet the study suggests that some neural processes involved in interpreting language and predicting future information can continue even when that awareness is absent.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Alan Mandell, an award-winning actor, arts patron and arts administrator, was best known for co-founding the San Quentin Drama Workshop and interpreting the plays of Samuel Beckett.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The latest claims are once again highly personal in their attacks on King Charles and the royals, interpreting their motives in a very harsh light.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Instead of proof, Bacon introduced the concept of interpretation; where before scholars had written about interpreting books, now Bacon introduced the idea of ‘the interpretation of nature’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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