How to Use parse in a Sentence
parse
verb- Students were asked to parse the sentence.
- Economists parsed the census data.
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There is a lot to parse in these two moves.
—Justin Worland, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
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Those two things made the crime scene so hard to parse.
—Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2025
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Those two things made the crime scene so hard to parse.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
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And there’s one key episode that, for me, didn’t parse at all.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
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Too close and too early to parse out.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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There are two ways of parsing these results.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 14 Feb. 2026
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My brain just isn’t able to parse out that kind of connection.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Our experts tried to parse an answer.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
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The multiple fights are hard to parse.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
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If three times is the charm, fans are already parsing what this all might mean.
—Antonio Ferme, Variety, 12 June 2026
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The messaging isn’t hard to parse.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2025
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Her ghost of a smile should be parsed as beatific rapture.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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The story remains in play; there will be plenty more to parse.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026
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There are two basic ways to observe and parse these dealings.
—Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
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That could be because rate hikes operate with a lag that is hard to parse.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
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The text is in Cyrillic, but the drawings are easy enough to parse.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
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But in the complex world of crypto, such a collapse can be hard to parse.
—Brian Cheung, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2022
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The coach who likes to parse questions no longer is giving anyone a hard time.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
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And that information is so hard to parse through.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 10 Dec. 2025
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Admittedly, this one took me a minute to parse.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026
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Comet lets its users take screenshots of websites and can parse text from those images.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
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That’s part of the point, of course—Hedda isn’t supposed to be easy to parse.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
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The stakes will be high for the summit, and every word out of each leader's mouth will be parsed.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 12 May 2026
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The challenge now is figuring out just how to parse all that data.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2022
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Might as well start with that instead of trying to parse it more favorably.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
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Halper was trying to parse Boudin’s loss on a platform run by the man who had helped lead it.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
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Those proofs might be long, sometimes too long for humans to ever parse ourselves.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2025
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What that looked like in practice, however, has often been hard to parse.
—Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
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