parse
verb (used with object)
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
are parsing
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present progressiveof parse.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Poultry and egg producers, partnering with the government, are parsing this outbreak for new lessons in keeping birds healthy.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
Cinema tickets, traffic jams, office footfall, web conferencing, even private jet leasing: investors are parsing motley metrics for clues about how to make money when a major economy reopens.
From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2021
To determine the vaccine’s impact across the population, health experts are parsing Israel’s trove of data by age, gender, location and health histories going back 20 years.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2021
Attorneys, pundits and scholars are parsing the legal aspects of it all, including First Amendment implications.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2018
Thousands and thousands are parsing out of the world, from diseases occasioned by exposures which a healthy constitution could meet without any danger.
From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher
