[Vocabulary] in a way that?

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Kotfor

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Which are OK?
1 I don’t see why his words can’t be interpreted in a way that Jack wasn’t against going there.
2 I don’t see why his words can’t be interpreted in such a way that Jack wasn’t against going there.
3 I don’t see why his words can’t be interpreted differently meaning that Jack wasn’t against going there.
4 I don’t see why his words can’t be interpreted as to mean that Jack wasn’t against going there.

Are there other ways to convey the same idea?
 

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'I don’t see why his words can’t be interpreted as Jack not being against going there.'

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I don’t see why his words can’t be interpreted on the basis that Jack was not against going there.
I don’t see why his words can’t be interpreted on the premise that Jack was not against going there.

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What about my original sentences? Are some of them OK? Which ones, if yes?
 

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They all look wrong to me, but I'm having trouble getting my head round all those negatives.
 

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4 I don’t see why his words can’t be interpreted as to mean that Jack wasn’t against going there.
I would replace 'interpreted as to mean' with 'taken to mean'.

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