CONSTRUED Definition & Meaning

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construed

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interpreted or understood:
Degrees from these “diploma mills” are often awarded based on vaguely construed life experience.
arrived at by inference or interpretation:
Public interest must necessarily overlap with a correctly construed definition of “national interest.”
arranged or combined syntactically:
Her soothing tones and delicate, thoughtfully construed statements only burrowed further and more painfully into his heart.

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Her comments were construed by some as asking Trump to delay tariffs so that a Conservative could win.

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He added that he construed donations as a sign that donors “like the things that you stand for not because they're buying some end result.”

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They stressed that the delay "should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits" of the case.

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The owner said his remarks should not be construed as a blanket judgment of “the quality and strength of the newsroom.”

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That has been construed as a threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

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