READ INTO Definition & Meaning

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read into

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verb

tr, preposition to discern in or infer from a statement (meanings not intended by the speaker or writer)

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Idioms and Phrases

Find an additional hidden or unintended meaning in something that is said or written, as in What I read into that speech on foreign policy is that the Vice President plans to run for President . [Late 1800s]

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Sure, we can all interpret this scene — and the subsequent scene in which the three women are canoodling happily together on the boat ride home — as a happy ending, but there are certainly other ways to read into what’s happening here.

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“Some people read into it too much — way too much.”

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"You can read into whatever around the results and performances, but at home in the Principality they're a different beast. We have to respect that."

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And it’s hard to not read into everything they do as a product of whatever’s happened to them.

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Much could be read into the details.

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