PARSE Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

parse

verb

Definition of parse

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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Recent Examples of parse That’s a lot of lengthy policy text to parse in order to understand what exactly your smart monitor is tracking and how that data may be used. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026 Here’s how to parse the shades of gray and come away with a brilliant lineup that resembles a rainbow trailing a shooting star. — Sports Betting, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Those figures come from a report issued in June 2025 by the Los Angeles County grand jury (and expertly parsed by filmmaker Nick Andert on YouTube). — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Today, a car made by one manufacturer cannot necessarily parse V2X sensor data sent from a car made by another. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for parse

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As of July 11, 70% of the nearly 66,000 people in ICE custody had no criminal conviction, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which analyzes federal immigration data.

— María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
The average wage is determined by analyzing 20 fire departments to be chosen by the Department of Human Resources and the firefighter union, Cal Fire Local 1881.

— Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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