dissecting

Example Sentences

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Her latest single, Praying Mantis, which released this week, has once again made her a talking point, with fans dissecting the dark, hypnotic track online.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

But investors were already dissecting the summations of the talks issued by the two countries afterward.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

After Block CEO Jack Dorsey announced that his financial-technology firm was laying off 4,000 people, text threads between workers outside Block erupted, while executives began furiously dissecting the move.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

“My mother loved dissecting politics through Chinese astrology,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez