as in analyzed
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 parsed
Simple formatting, recognizable headings, and standard section labels all carry weight in whether a resume is parsed correctly.
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K. H. Koehler, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Wednesday as investors parsed China’s inflation data and awaited the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
The Herald then parsed the posts nd identified those that were related to Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro’s regime, narcotics-trafficking in the Caribbean or the lethal strikes in the area.
—Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
Event data is temporal in nature, effectively capturing the swings of a robot arm or the spinning of a gear, but those distinct data signatures aren’t easily parsed by current machine-vision systems.
—Christoph Posch, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2025
And his controversial interview was ambiguous on its face, and appears to have been parsed in a manner meant to capture headlines instead of providing the intricate truths.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
But the Hungarian novelist’s central theme is easily parsed and sadly evergreen.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
One particular problem was the relatively low resolution available from a mass spectrometer on Cassini called the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA), which parsed the chemical composition of puffs of dust from ice grains striking its detectors each time the spacecraft swooped through a plume.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
An endless stream of content parsed the meaning of the words and symbols on the bullet casings.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parsed
analyzed
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The platform analyzed search terms during peak resolution planning season—December 1-30, 2025—by examining 70 total keywords.—
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Cable networks again analyzed an ICE officer’s shooting of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, this time with the new angle from footage that was taken by the federal agent.—
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“Parsed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parsed. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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