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 inaugural name, Mrs. Sarah Hanna, was entered on September 5, 1840, in the kind of cursive handwriting that humans have lost the ability and patience to parse.
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Hanks also tries to parse between fact and fiction in her family history, including a story about her maternal grandfather's possible connection to a murder.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 6 June 2025
May jobs one-month net change The horizontal bar chart shows job creation statistics for May 2025 parsed by sector.
—Sean Conlon,jesse Pound, CNBC, 5 June 2025
Not long ago, manipulated falsehood and verifiable visual truth were a little easier to parse.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Hanks also tries to parse between fact and fiction in her family history, including a story about her maternal grandfather's possible connection to a murder.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 6 June 2025
May jobs one-month net change The horizontal bar chart shows job creation statistics for May 2025 parsed by sector.
—Sean Conlon,jesse Pound, CNBC, 5 June 2025
Not long ago, manipulated falsehood and verifiable visual truth were a little easier to parse.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parse
analyze
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Get out of the way, nerds, some of us cool kids are trying to analyze decades-old YouTube sports clips.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Create a system to analyze triggers and leverage them for self-development.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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“Parse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parse. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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