interpret
verb (used with object)
was interpreting
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past progressiveof interpret.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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DCB: I think my production team was interpreting what I wrote in the script and felt like that was the right material for that exchange between Anne and Raymond.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025
There’s good reason to think that Congress was interpreting and protecting the First Amendment when it enacted that language.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2022
Ginsburg, in the majority ruling, wrote the circuit court was interpreting Sirica’s 1974 ruling “as fitting within the Rule 6 exception for ‘judicial proceedings.’
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019
I was interpreting Peggy's stricken look, as she gathered her things, as one of regret, but her sudden grin in the elevator indicated that she's ready to fly away.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2012
The noise his crew was interpreting as that of enemy torpedoes, Herrick suggested, could actually be coming from the American ship’s own propeller.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
