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'?
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Re: Parse
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.
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.
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