as in analyzes
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 parses
In Shakespeare’s Wife, historian Germaine Greer parses over what little record survives to argue that Anne was likely literate and skilled in crafts and artisan work.
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Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
Markets will move on Wednesday after Wall Street parses Powell’s statement and his Q&A for clues about future rate cuts beyond Wednesday.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Spark Atlas parses scripts into a database, linking dialogue, actions, and assets to story elements, effectively serving as an artist-friendly production backbone.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Within the system, members of the writing team can create content, play back that content in a preview mode, define routes between content modules, and find places for users to enter free text, which our AI system then parses.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2024
Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
Markets will move on Wednesday after Wall Street parses Powell’s statement and his Q&A for clues about future rate cuts beyond Wednesday.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Spark Atlas parses scripts into a database, linking dialogue, actions, and assets to story elements, effectively serving as an artist-friendly production backbone.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Within the system, members of the writing team can create content, play back that content in a preview mode, define routes between content modules, and find places for users to enter free text, which our AI system then parses.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parses
analyzes
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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,
10 Jan. 2026
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Once the download is complete, Oh analyzes the images using a program designed to detect various forms of nudity or undress.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Parses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parses. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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