read into

British  

/ riːd /

verb

1. (tr, preposition) to discern in or infer from a statement (meanings not intended by the speaker or writer)

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read into Idioms  

1. Find an additional hidden or unintended meaning in something that is said or written, as in What I read into that speech on foreign policy is that the Vice President plans to run for President. [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

“It’s the nature of envy. You’re not going to get a click, you’re not going to get a response, by saying something nice about somebody, by acknowledging someone’s greatness, by acknowledging how much they care and how much they work and how much they’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish and continue to go after something. I mean, you got to say something bad about him. You got to go on TV and knock him. You got to go read into, ‘Oh, he did this pregame and he did this.’

From Los Angeles Times

Historian Subhadra Das agrees: "This is what scientists do. There are hundreds of long-dead people who have had their DNA sampled, it's a common practice in science and archaeology – it's how we read into it that starts to become problematic."

From BBC

Mr. Roberts’s first move was to dump his chief of staff who wrote the statement he read into the camera.

From The Wall Street Journal

Getting a clear read into the health of the labor market is a tough task as of late.

From MarketWatch

Whatever you want to read into that regarding cultural shifts in America in 2025, its surprising that such a rock-solid piece of songwriting didn’t get nominated for Song or Record, though Warren did turn up for New Artist.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• ascertain
• assume
• construe
• deduce
• derive
• figure out
• glean
• guess
• interpret
• presume
• presuppose
• reckon
• speculate
• surmise