interpret
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Yet many investors tend to interpret those records as warning signs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
In his opening statement Monday, defense attorney Michael Sanft told the jury his client has a penchant for exaggeration and urged them not to interpret Davis’s statements about the shooting as fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Yet other people can mistakenly interpret difficulty communicating as evidence of difficulty thinking.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
After meeting at secondary school in Mexico the two went on to work together on research projects that have revealed how dogs interpret and respond to human language and behaviour.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
I guess they didn’t trust me to interpret for my parents.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
What those commitments are - and how Iran interprets them - will help determine whether this deal sticks.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Saylor was keen to point out “systemically important banks like Morgan Stanley and Citi, all with intent to integrate bitcoin into their operations,” which he interprets as an “embrace of bitcoin as a creditworthy instrument.”
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
The device detects that change and interprets it as a touch.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
AI inference computing is divided into two main tasks: pre-fill, or the process by which a model interprets a user prompt, and decode, by which the model generates a response, one word at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
But they also light up when the brain interprets something as pleasurable, even if the behavior doesn’t appear to have the survival value of, say, eating or procreating.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Investors interpreted the data as giving the Federal Reserve less urgency to raise rates, with the market-implied probability of a September hike falling to 40% from 48% a day before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The researchers interpreted this pattern as a sign of more efficient brain function.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Khokhar describes this as "vague" and raises questions about how it might be interpreted.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Some interpreted the move as the market calling the Federal Reserve’s bluff.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
At the time she’d interpreted his words as “Take care of your brother.”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
It has also since signed a contract with a sign language interpreting company.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
"This study has delivered the first framework for interpreting how megafauna fossils formed, survived, and changed in underwater caves," Miss Walker said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Consider the measure of insider sentiment favored by Nejat Seyhun, a finance professor at the University of Michigan and a leading expert on interpreting insider behavior.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Gustavo Duque, mayor of Chacao, a middle-class Caracas neighbourhood, urges caution in interpreting the red sign too simply.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
I understood Hebrew well enough to read it, but I had always struggled with actually interpreting the passages.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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