construing

present participle of construe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for construing
Verb
  • The film opens just as its predecessor ended, with a handy recap explaining how Ne Zha and his angelic counterpart, Ao Bing, ended up in need of bodily reincarnation.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Amorim has been clearer and more consistent in explaining his tactical ideas and vision for the future.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Building in a few minutes at the end of meetings for clarifying questions shows that understanding is a priority.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The last two years have been clarifying, and not only in unpleasant ways.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While the details of the case are particular to one individual, experts say the outcome is far too common, illustrating the need for greater vigilance of, and advocacy around, a threat that kills a person every six minutes, according to the National Blood Clot Alliance.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • That's why, for example, the US government has funded a series of Landsat satellites since 1972 to create an uninterrupted data catalog illustrating changes in global land use.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Soon, Geoffrey Hinton and his graduate students began demonstrating that neural networks, trained on large datasets and run on GPUs, could do things—like classify images into a thousand different categories—that would have been impossible in the late 1980s.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Fahey Rush was often responsible for demonstrating how the company’s TV audiences — in the linear era, some of the industry’s youngest — behaved and consumed media and advertising.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Many CEOs will have no choice but to devote their efforts to guessing, interpreting and trying to influence what the president wants, rather than toiling on behalf of their shareholders and customers.
    Senior Fellow, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But you’d be forgiven for interpreting it as a reaction to those events.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Years of designing lessons, engaging learners, and simplifying complex topics translate directly into their new environment.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But that’s simplifying things a bit.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Construing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/construing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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