PARSE Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

parse

verb

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 An army of amateur online sleuths has been parsing Burke’s lyrics, interviews and social media posts for clues, and the case has resulted in headlines in publications from the Los Angeles Times to the New York Post. —

Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026 Discussions, on social media and among film critics, moved from obsessively parsing the story and its blockbuster appeal to debating what the movie means for Black film and Blackness writ large. —

Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026 Our experts tried to parse an answer. —

Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026 As Polymarket inundates millions of timelines with newsy statements, the efficacy of each announcement can be hard to parse. —

Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for parse

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analyze

Verb

The researchers spent almost two years analyzing the drone footage, applying machine learning in combination with good, old-fashioned field biology.

— Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2026
The watches underwent 25 days of scrutiny there, analyzed via a new acoustic testing method that recorded every sound emitting from the timepiece to track irregularities, temperature sensitivities, and more in the name of all things precision.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2026