parse
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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
Looking ahead, Thursday brings the June jobs report, which investors will parse for clues about the Fed’s next move on rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
And it might not be easy to parse out which employees would be best suited for these products.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
If a formal agreement is announced this shortened-trading week, investors will be eager to parse the details–especially around the Strait of Hormuz and how quickly it can be fully reopened to maritime traffic.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 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
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
The Long Short-Term Memory network, originally developed to help machines learn human languages, parses detailed inflation data to spot patterns that helps it predict the Consumer Price Index in the future.
From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2022
Ever attuned to inversion and instability, Nelson nimbly parses the “knot of freedom and unfreedom” without reflexively championing the former or condemning the latter.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021
"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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—Asian equities were mostly lower as investors parsed valuations following Wall Street’s recent rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The LAPD’s Nike case has been parsed in the online sneakerhead community, with questions raised about how much local dealers knew — or should have known — about the origins of their merchandise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
Half of them never showed up, or, when they did, they slept through the lesson or nodded off in the middle of Miss Brown’s carefully parsed sentences.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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 phrase might also carry a double meaning, one Grohl is still parsing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 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 first is to find the correct branches, a process called parsing.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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