construe
verb (used with object)
has construed
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present perfectof construe (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Clinic member Amanda Lynch said on the conference call that “the public must know how the government has construed the surveillance authorities it already has before it can amend them.”
From US News ● Nov. 30, 2015
He has construed my words as it suited his vanity.
From Henry VIII and His Court by Henry Niles Pierce
We ourselves have witnessed an example of the curious and credulous exaggeration which has construed certain articulations in animals into rational speech.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
