parse
verb (used with object)
to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
was parsing
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past progressiveof parse.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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It was parsing those detailed evaluations that convinced Krughoff he could do something similar with service providers.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022
While everyone in the church if not the country was parsing what Francis said during his visit, the faithful, including Ms. Giovinco, heard unmitigated tolerance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2015
Obama was still more than a year away from becoming America’s first black president, but already he was parsing that identity in his mind.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2012
As for the Seasons' lyrics, I guarantee nobody was parsing them to determine the romantic ache, handed out and absorbed, behind the perky melodies and simple rhymes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Claire increasingly showed the strain, the unhappiness, through which she was parsing.
From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
