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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Some are parsing polling data, arguing people aren’t against AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
As they consider their two choices, residents are parsing the different votes that the members have taken on the council, weighing the candidates’ backgrounds and identities and mulling the strategic considerations in a pick-two race.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
Twitter’s users, advertisers and employees are parsing Musk’s every move in an effort to guess where he might take the company — but the mercurial tech executive has not made the job easy.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
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
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
