read across

English

Verb

read across (third-person singular simple present reads across, present participle reading across, simple past and past participle read across)

  1. (transitive, with from) To draw a conclusion about one phenomenon based on another phenomenon.
    You're reading across from one case to another in a different legal context entirely.
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