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More than a decade later, recent cases like this one raised at Prime Minister's Questions have led the government to review how the courts have been interpreting everyone's right to a family life.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

Judges do not poll the public before interpreting the law, and federal courts have been interpreting Constitutional ambiguities since the Supreme Court established the principle of judicial review in 1803.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2024

But Utah's malpractice law is so broad that judges have been interpreting it as covering any act performed by a health care provider during medical care.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2023

These observations were subjective; the animal keepers knew the ages of the animals and may have been interpreting their behavior based on expectations.

From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2015

Some of them may have been interpreting life as having a good time, but, under the tutorage of Tom, they soon came to feel that having a good time means whitewashing a fence.

From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.