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
Given that the Fed will likely stay its hand on rates, investors will take to parsing Powell’s words even more closely.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2025
Fortunately, the designations are a bit simpler to parse through.
—Luke Larsen, Wired News, 15 June 2025
Having no memory of who or what hurt her, and with her family refusing to discuss it, Cadence begins triggering her own memories, dead set on parsing out the truth.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 June 2025
The program then translates the measurements into 512 random bits of binary code that can then be parsed by anyone.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 June 2025
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2025
Fortunately, the designations are a bit simpler to parse through.
—Luke Larsen, Wired News, 15 June 2025
Having no memory of who or what hurt her, and with her family refusing to discuss it, Cadence begins triggering her own memories, dead set on parsing out the truth.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 June 2025
The program then translates the measurements into 512 random bits of binary code that can then be parsed by anyone.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parse
analyze
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The other new offering is a finance agent that automatically analyzes KPIs and performs planning functions for different scenarios.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Those videos can also serve the interests of science, as evidenced by the international team of researchers who analyzed 408 publicly available videos of sleeping cats to study whether the kitties showed any preference for sleeping on their right or left sides.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 June 2025
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“Parse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parse. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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