anatomize

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In essence, a bibliographical description anatomizes a book’s structure and supplies a schematic overview of its printing history.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2020

Thus, the film seems to blame the evil it anatomizes on the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots, the 1% and the 99%, in other words: everyone.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2018

That pretty much anatomizes the show’s Edith Problem.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2015

Rarified as her background is, Feiffer’s nightmare version of herself is essentially an extreme case of entitlement, the kind that Lena Dunham anatomizes, with a kinder touch, on “Girls.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2015

Thus he anatomizes old Homer with a vengeance.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques