parse
verb (used with object)
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
parsed
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past participleof parse.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof parse.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
parseverb (used with object)to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
Example Sentences
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Reporters programmatically extracted compensation tables, footnotes and other explanations of perquisites mentioned in the filings and fed the results to an LLM which parsed the amount, type and beneficiary of each perk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Together, Flynn and Teruko parsed through her life stories to give the show an arc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
For his part, Thomas writes as though history resides principally in legal texts, 19th-century dictionaries, and carefully parsed debates over sovereignty.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yardeni and his team parsed the official data released monthly by the Treasury Department, and found that foreign investors poured more than $1.4 trillion into U.S. assets during the 12 months through April 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 2026
Half of them never showed up, or, when they did, they slept through the lesson or nodded off in the middle of Miss Brown’s carefully parsed sentences.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
