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 will also be parsing earnings from GE Aerospace , Lockheed Martin , RTX , General Motors , 3M , and Coco-Cola .
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Jeff Marks,paulina Likos, CNBC, 20 Oct. 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
Another challenge is parsing millions of pages of corporate documents to figure out what shareholders are actually being asked to decide.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Yet parsing the distinctions between Bluesky and X has a burgeoning air of futility.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Their strength lies in recognizing key words that signal action or reward, not in parsing the finer details of speech or grasping full sentences.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Jeff Marks,paulina Likos, CNBC, 20 Oct. 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
Another challenge is parsing millions of pages of corporate documents to figure out what shareholders are actually being asked to decide.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Yet parsing the distinctions between Bluesky and X has a burgeoning air of futility.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Their strength lies in recognizing key words that signal action or reward, not in parsing the finer details of speech or grasping full sentences.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parsing
analyzing
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By analyzing grocery orders that included candy throughout the year, Instacart uncovered each state’s top Halloween picks.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
17 Oct. 2025
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Archaeologists plan to continue analyzing these artifacts and excavating the area around the ancient basin.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Kansas City Star,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Parsing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parsing. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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