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  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of construe
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This broad interpretation takes individual rights as paramount and narrowly construes exemptions.
Although it is true that Southwell does not use muses as a device very often, she construes Neoplatonism too narrowly.
The Joint Committee construes that reference as being to groups of teachers, rather than teachers' organisations, as such.
It is a textualist claim that construes the meaning of the ACA by reading it holistically rather than by focusing opportunistically on a single provision thereof.
True to the nature of oracles, this one has a double meaning, and Semiramis construes it in the wrong way.
Moreover, the rule is highly manipulable, depending, among other things, on how broadly or narrowly a court construes the field in question.

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