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interpreted

understood in a certain way; made sense of

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Six example sentences with interpreted, each labelled with its topic.

  • The interpreted spectra pointed to water ice, though two rival teams read the same faint lines quite differently.

    Science

  • Every interpreted clause in the treaty carried a footnote explaining which of three possible readings the panel had adopted.

    Law

  • Bach played on a modern piano is interpreted music, shaped by choices the composer never wrote onto the page.

    Music

  • Every interpreted text carries the reader's assumptions, Gadamer argued, so there is no reading from nowhere.

    Philosophy

  • The interpreted ending, in which the open door stands for forgiveness, is only one of three readings the class defended.

    Literature

  • The jobs report is interpreted data: raw survey counts pass through seasonal adjustments before anyone reads a headline number.

    Economics

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