read in
verb- To accept as input. · The computer reads in a program file from disk and executes the contents.
- To allow access to classified information. · ― What is this? ― I can tell you what this isn't. This isn't me reading you in, Bernard.
- To judicially insert an official legal interpretation into a statute
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“I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court,” and I never understood what it meant till now.”
Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night--set it _on purpose_, Marilla--and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.
‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it.
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