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: November 3, 2023
\PARSS\ verb
What It Means
To parse something is to to study it by looking closely at its parts. In grammar and linguistics, parse means "to divide (a sentence) into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each other."
// The lawyer meticulously parsed the wording of the final contract to be sure that her client would get all that he was asking for.
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