Example Sentences

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“If you want to explain the different outcomes in people, it may be differences in how people are construing their experiences.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

In what insiders are construing as a defiant gesture towards the paper’s proprietor, The Times carried a front page story and a double page spread inside covering its editor’s departure.

From Newsweek • Dec. 13, 2012

They sat down to their task like young scholars who are construing, not interpreting, their author.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various