How to Use parse in a Sentence

parse

verb
Definition of parsenext
Synonyms for parsenext
  • Students were asked to parse the sentence.
  • Economists parsed the census data.
  • And there’s one key episode that, for me, didn’t parse at all.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The text is in Cyrillic, but the drawings are easy enough to parse.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But in the complex world of crypto, such a collapse can be hard to parse.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • My brain just isn’t able to parse out that kind of connection.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Now, the results of tests like this are difficult to parse.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Halper was trying to parse Boudin’s loss on a platform run by the man who had helped lead it.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The coach who likes to parse questions no longer is giving anyone a hard time.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • There will be plenty of time to parse the particulars of the DOJ’s case.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2023
  • McCarthy has vowed to give his members at least 72 hours to parse through the text of the bill once it's finalized.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 28 May 2023
  • That could be because rate hikes operate with a lag that is hard to parse.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • There’s your run-of-the-mill bottled water, but there’s also a load of health buzzwords to parse through.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
  • There are two basic ways to observe and parse these dealings.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The challenge now is figuring out just how to parse all that data.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2022
  • This feels like the core human impulse that Aviv is attempting to parse.
    — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Like a human composer Shimon has to parse through lots of ideas to choose what’s good from the creations.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
  • This will, frankly, take repeat viewings and listens to even begin to parse.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Might as well start with that instead of trying to parse it more favorably.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • What that looked like in practice, however, has often been hard to parse.
    — Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In the video, which was deleted by Nextdoor, McWain asks the man what happened and asks for his name, but the responses are difficult to parse.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The statistical nuances of the test aren’t easy to parse for patients and even some doctors and nurses.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 6 Dec. 2022
  • How this design missed the mark is a question that will be parsed throughout the legal proceedings.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • News about the game has mostly involved a giant slew of PvP updates which are fine, but not the most exciting thing to parse.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • This is the element perhaps hardest to parse given the unique nature of each player and team league-wide.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The mind-bending part was trying to recognize and parse patterns in the bot’s responses.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The legal skirmishes in the case to date have parsed every word of McDonald’s statement.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Bond investors are trying to parse how the central bank will react to the rapidly changing fiscal news.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Fans will attempt to dissect each lyric looking for hints as to who, or what, each song is about, but some of the song themes are easier to parse than the subjects.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The university parses through nominations from across the world every year to come up with the list.
    — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2024

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