anatomize

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LuPone has two big numbers, both of which anatomize the ambivalence of married life: “The Little Things You Do Together” in the first act and “The Ladies Who Lunch” in the second.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2022

And the production wore its frailties so flamboyantly and desperately, it was a cinch to anatomize them.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020

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

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2015

The historian did not merely anatomize the body of the Past, but with magic power summoned up its ghost.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various