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This from today's New York Times:

...the data is too thin to parse because India is performing too little genomic sequencing.

Is this really a minor abuse of English? As I see it, to parse means to break into its component parts ('deconstruct' is a horrid modern way of saying the same thing). Doesn't the author here really mean 'analyse'?

Without more context for the usage, it's hard to say, but dictionary.com does have this as its third definition of parse:

to analyze (something, as a speech or behavior) to discover its implications or uncover a deeper meaning

That would seem to make the quoted NYT bit fit.