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We could start by parsing the jokes, gags, and laugh-riots that the president-elect and his allies crassly dispensed in the final weeks of the race.

The play, which centers on two ragtag characters waiting in vain for a man named Godot, delivers some of 20th century theater’s most closely parsed lines.

The Apple team found “catastrophic performance drops” by those models when they tried to parse simple mathematical problems written in essay form.

“I’m going to vote for Trump because I want a less tumultuous presidency? Really? Donald Trump. It just doesn’t parse,” Stevens said.

The difficulty in parsing exactly what the former president means also makes it hard to determine how literally to take him, even if his comments do inspire worry.