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The executive branch does not construe the provision as requiring it to share additional information with Congress.construe = interpret
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Juries can construe evidence to mean something it does not.
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It was someone who wore nothing that could be construed as suggestive. (source)construed = interpreted
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Maybe I wouldn't have been quite so alarmed if I'd understood a little better what wasn't clear to me at the time: that I was a minor, and that my parent or guardian had to be present at an official interview—which was why anyone even vaguely construed as my advocate had been called in. (source)construed = thought of
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For Steve Farese, a single bullet fired into one's husband's back counted as a trivial offense: a human being could hardly think up a thing to do that Farese couldn't construe as innocent. (source)construe = understand in a particular way
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Your drowsiness might well be construed as laziness. (source)construed = interpreted
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He warned Gabriel and Fareed Barakat to avoid using any tactic on their prisoner that might remotely be construed as torture. (source)construed = interpreted
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Nor can there be strict rules for how the judges will construe the offenses. (source)construe = understand
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Pleasantly giddy from the odor of plants and the sultry warmth of the shop, which made his eyes water after the cold outdoors, he completed the transaction with a happy, pounding heart, construing his modest effort as bold, adventurous, and helpful, and secretly ascribing symbolic importance to it.† (source)construing = understanding something to have a specific meaning
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construes 'wea' as nom abs.† (source)construes = understands something to have a specific meaning
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Meseem'd, That, while she spake her image all did burn, And in her eyes such fullness was of joy, And I am fain to pass unconstrued by.† (source)unconstrued = not interpreted as having a specific meaningstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstrued means not and reverses the meaning of construed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Is that correctly construed? (source)construed = interpreted
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Sending other men to do his office ...some might construe that as a grave insult.† (source)construe = understand something to have a specific meaning
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Tho' some of these caprices of the pit could not but be observed by their object, yet were they beyond the construing of such a nature.† (source)construing = understanding something to have a specific meaning
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CROMWELL Is that what the world in fact construes from it?† (source)construes = understands something to have a specific meaning
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It was impossible to know what action might later be construed as a crime. (source)construed = understood something to have a specific meaning
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