read into
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Ange Postecoglou had that record on his own, but the way it turned out for the Australian at Tottenham underlines the point that not too much can be read into current form.
From BBC
Bad Bunny’s signifiers were subtler, although some may not have contained the meaning people read into them.
From Salon
“It’s the nature of envy. You’re not going to get a click, you’re not going to get a response, by saying something nice about somebody, by acknowledging someone’s greatness, by acknowledging how much they care and how much they work and how much they’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish and continue to go after something. I mean, you got to say something bad about him. You got to go on TV and knock him. You got to go read into, ‘Oh, he did this pregame and he did this.’
From Los Angeles Times
Historian Subhadra Das agrees: "This is what scientists do. There are hundreds of long-dead people who have had their DNA sampled, it's a common practice in science and archaeology – it's how we read into it that starts to become problematic."
From BBC
Mr. Roberts’s first move was to dump his chief of staff who wrote the statement he read into the camera.
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