anatomize

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They make their lives from the bits of gender and love and culture they’ve been given, and there’s no place to stand outside that messy process and anatomize, dissect or categorize them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2021

They anatomize sunspots by way of US astronomer George Ellery Hale, who pioneered their observation with his 1889 invention of the spectroheliograph.

From Nature • Jul. 18, 2017

This is big-picture theater, which takes a long view down the corridors of power to anatomize the psyches of the men and women who determine the fate of nations.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2016

Dirda’s style, likewise, is seductively transparent while being devilishly difficult to anatomize or duplicate.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2015

It would be too curious to anatomize the writhings of his proud little spirit.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch