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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The right half of the image is an architectonic jumble of patterns and bold lines, hard to parse but visually compelling.
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Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Imagine spending hours refining a resume, tailoring it to a specific role—only to have the system reject the upload or incorrectly parse the information.
—Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
For Democrats, the main race to watch Tuesday, though, is the Senate primary between Josh Turek and Zach Wahls, as people try to parse what the results say about the party's future direction.
—Stephen Fowler, NPR, 31 May 2026
That’s because language and sequencing is everything; every last word will be parsed and debated; every connection between one element and another scrutinized.
—Tim Lister, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
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Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Imagine spending hours refining a resume, tailoring it to a specific role—only to have the system reject the upload or incorrectly parse the information.
—Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
For Democrats, the main race to watch Tuesday, though, is the Senate primary between Josh Turek and Zach Wahls, as people try to parse what the results say about the party's future direction.
—Stephen Fowler, NPR, 31 May 2026
That’s because language and sequencing is everything; every last word will be parsed and debated; every connection between one element and another scrutinized.
—Tim Lister, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
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analyze
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This article was generated by the Bay Area Home Report Bot, software that analyzes home sales or other data and creates an article based on a template created by humans.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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The Lipoprotein Insulin Resistance (LP-IR) Test estimates the body’s response to insulin by analyzing patterns in blood fats and assigning a score from zero to 100.—
Samantha Agate,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2026
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“Parse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parse. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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