as in to analyze
to understand something by considering it parts closely
I'm having trouble parsing your words—could you rephrase what you said? We need time to parse the huge amount of data put forward in the report.
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Recent Examples of parse
The conceit is that given executives’ workload, time is precious and needs to be parsed out accordingly.
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Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2025
The 10-year Treasury yield dropped Wednesday morning as investors parsed key inflation data.
—Hakyung Kim,alex Harring,jenni Reid, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
These billing codes can be hard to parse, but if any of them seem off, call your insurer to clarify.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
By parsing the words or tokens, the AI seeks to detect circumstances that warrant stopping or circumventing the AI processing that is taking place.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2025
The 10-year Treasury yield dropped Wednesday morning as investors parsed key inflation data.
—Hakyung Kim,alex Harring,jenni Reid, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
These billing codes can be hard to parse, but if any of them seem off, call your insurer to clarify.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
By parsing the words or tokens, the AI seeks to detect circumstances that warrant stopping or circumventing the AI processing that is taking place.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Parse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parse. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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