as in analyzing
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 parsing
Investors in Asia are also parsing October inflation data from China over the weekend, which came in above expectations.
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 9 Nov. 2025
Elite politics has become so opaque under his rule that pundits look for any clue for China’s direction – from parsing Xi’s words for their real meaning to assessing the color of his hair.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Few consumers relish the thought of reading a credit report, shopping for car insurance or parsing a bank statement.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Over sundry phone calls, Houlihan provided investment banking guidance to the family office investors, parsing the transactions’ pros and cons.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
Live Translation comes to Messages, FaceTime, and the Phone app, for text and audio translation, and shortcuts can now include intelligent actions that automate specific processes with Apple Intelligence capabilities, like parsing information from a file whenever it's dropped in a certain folder.
—PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
After all, the moody duet features the gorgeously contrasting tones of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon with Swift's more delicate vocals as the two portray exes who are parsing what went wrong in their relationship.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
This includes parsing public-sector budgets to predict hiring trends in government, analyzing job postings on platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed to forecast future demand, and even tracking sentiment on professional networks to gauge worker confidence and potential attrition.
—Jeff Gapusan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Women are at much greater risk of dementia than men—as many as two-thirds of people in the US with Alzheimer’s disease are women—and likely for a mix of reasons that experts are still parsing out.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 15 Sep. 2025
Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 9 Nov. 2025
Elite politics has become so opaque under his rule that pundits look for any clue for China’s direction – from parsing Xi’s words for their real meaning to assessing the color of his hair.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Few consumers relish the thought of reading a credit report, shopping for car insurance or parsing a bank statement.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Over sundry phone calls, Houlihan provided investment banking guidance to the family office investors, parsing the transactions’ pros and cons.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
Live Translation comes to Messages, FaceTime, and the Phone app, for text and audio translation, and shortcuts can now include intelligent actions that automate specific processes with Apple Intelligence capabilities, like parsing information from a file whenever it's dropped in a certain folder.
—PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
After all, the moody duet features the gorgeously contrasting tones of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon with Swift's more delicate vocals as the two portray exes who are parsing what went wrong in their relationship.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
This includes parsing public-sector budgets to predict hiring trends in government, analyzing job postings on platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed to forecast future demand, and even tracking sentiment on professional networks to gauge worker confidence and potential attrition.
—Jeff Gapusan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Women are at much greater risk of dementia than men—as many as two-thirds of people in the US with Alzheimer’s disease are women—and likely for a mix of reasons that experts are still parsing out.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parsing
analyzing
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By analyzing nearly half a million nearby star systems, the team sought to understand how often planets survive when their host stars swell into red giants.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Related Stories Set to receive the Indie Star Award at Tauron American Film Festival, Philippe has become known for analyzing cinema history in his detailed docs.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Parsing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parsing. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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