How to Use interpret in a Sentence

interpret

verb
  • How should we interpret the law?
  • We need someone to interpret these results for us.
  • I interpreted his behavior to mean that he disliked me.
  • Every actor interprets the role of Hamlet a little differently.
  • Different brands interpret camel differently, but all are aligned in a range of brown.
    Ty Gaskins, Men's Health, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Tarot readers may use more than one type of tarot deck and interpret the tarot cards differently based on the topic of the reading.
    Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Migrants said gracias and asked one another how to interpret Roberts’ order.
    Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • This would signal how the Fed will interpret new data, rather than the Fed’s recent practice of promising to ignore data.
    Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • This may change how some marketers interpret their responsibility about making certain claims.
    Megan Graham, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This metric assumes free cash flow remains static, so it can also be interpreted as investors having more confidence that free cash flow will continue to grow.
    Bill Stone, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Computer vision is a type of AI that trains computers to understand and interpret images.
    Anneke Knot, Allure, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Women with dense breasts have more glandular tissue, making mammograms harder to interpret and increasing breast cancer risk.
    Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Crash Detection will interpret sudden stops and falls as car crashes, considering the considerable speeds skiers can reach.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Dec. 2022
  • O’odham people help plant and interpret the Native American timeline gardens.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Dec. 2022
  • One of the main ways in which AI has contributed to autonomous driving, in general, is through its ability to process and interpret vast amounts of data.
    Sanjit Singh Dang, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • For one, submit a simplified version of your résumé, with straightforward design and text, so an AI can interpret it accurately.
    Tatiana Walk-Morris, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2022
  • This may increase the risk of a patient incorrectly interpreting their results, misreading one infection for another.
    Julie Sullivan, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Data on the scale of the new spike in infections is harder to gather and interpret as Chinese authorities are no longer reporting the number of asymptomatic cases.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 18 Dec. 2022
  • That leaves the courts to interpret what is already on the books.
    Sam Whitehead and Julie Appleby, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The dramatists get to interpret the idea of hope in their own way.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2020
  • There are many ways to interpret that, but one of them is through the prism of loss avoidance.
    Neil Irwin, New York Times, 13 July 2018
  • The Monk and the Gun is best interpreted in that context.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 27 July 2024
  • The agency says the tests should be easy enough for a lay person to use and interpret at home.
    Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The ultimate goal is to interpret the word of God in a way that changes lives.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2022
  • For those who can interpret them, the bones speak for the dead and educate the living.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Yet my lawyer assures me the law could interpret 13 years in many ways.
    Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
  • There are many ways to interpret that data, and one of them is this: Streep has lost 25 times.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Vow, viewers might interpret, is filling in the gaps.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Blue light is the lightwave that our eyes interpret as the color blue.
    Zoe Malin, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Ratings are one of the best ways to interpret the Trump psyche.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020

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