construed
Americanadjective
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interpreted or understood.
Degrees from these “diploma mills” are often awarded based on vaguely construed life experience.
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arrived at by inference or interpretation.
Public interest must necessarily overlap with a correctly construed definition of “national interest.”
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arranged or combined syntactically.
Her soothing tones and delicate, thoughtfully construed statements only burrowed further and more painfully into his heart.
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Tesla shares rose 5.4% to $376.37 after the electric-car maker scheduled an event related to its Cybercab, which investors construed as the likely commercial launch of the long-awaited robotaxi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
As we have shown, courts long interpreted these life exceptions to protect physicians acting in good faith to preserve a patient’s life—and these actors construed “life” generously and with deference to physicians’ professional judgment.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
That order explicitly said that nothing in it should be construed as creating a mandatory licensing regime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
But the BBC saw no behaviour and heard no language that could be construed as offensive.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
He hated himself for what he construed to be his own cowardice.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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