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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Ultimately, my journey down the rabbit hole of ostrich emissions convinced me that parsing the relative virtues of different types of meat might be beside the point.
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Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2025
From a pool of 60 of the snails, the staff embarked on a mighty journey to parse their biological secrets, including how to multiply their numbers.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
And equally hard to parse out exactly what the new ideas or developments mean for those of us who hunt deer and elk in one of the 35 states and five Canadian provinces currently infected with CWD.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
One of the biggest questions in parsing blue bloods is where is the cutoff line?
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2025
From a pool of 60 of the snails, the staff embarked on a mighty journey to parse their biological secrets, including how to multiply their numbers.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
And equally hard to parse out exactly what the new ideas or developments mean for those of us who hunt deer and elk in one of the 35 states and five Canadian provinces currently infected with CWD.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
One of the biggest questions in parsing blue bloods is where is the cutoff line?
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Parse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parse. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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