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dissect

[dih-sekt, dahy-] / dɪˈsɛkt, daɪ- /




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Some are by amateur forensic analysts and would-be internet sleuths with podcast names like The Murder Men that dissect the killing as if it’s a 1980s cold case.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

One is that the market is slow to react to pure news that has “high quantitative intensity” — articles that dissect a company’s income or balance sheet, for example.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026

And it’s Henry who’s the star of this outfit, almost always the first to dissect whatever just happened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

"His match plans always worked. He would dissect the opponents and always find solutions with his analysis. It was phenomenal," he told Spox.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Nancy was anxious to dissect the monkeys right away.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Graham Greene dissects the human heart, laying bare its irreconcilable contradictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Like any kind of fandom, HahaYes dissects each and every seemingly meaningless Musk tweet, searching desperately for hidden meaning to a point of near-delusion.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

Enid’s sympathy is strong, but her class allegiance is stronger, setting up an intriguing character study that takes us into the heart of the societal dilemma Galsworthy diligently dissects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

He has impressed with the way he dissects football and thinks about the game, but also sometimes comes off as easily irritable.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024

Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

That became evident only after the animals were dissected and genetically analysed in the field laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

They dissected Laura Owens’s claim that she was carrying Echard’s twins and grew suspicious when a photo surfaced of her at a horse show with no apparent baby bump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Joseph Fransen, the study’s chief author, told the Commission that he took inspiration from the federal government’s 9/11 after-action report, which dissected mistakes leading up to the terrorist attack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The German creator of the controversial "Body Worlds" exhibitions of dissected human and animal bodies, Gunther von Hagens, has died at age 81, his family said Monday.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

They cut apart birds to trace the structure of the avian skeleton, and, masked in leather hoods, they dissected a skunk.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“You labor in a torture-chamber and dissecting room, I make my observations under the blue sky.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Built around chopped-up guitar samples and acid-burned melodies, it finds the star dissecting her relationship to art and fame after Brat transformed her from cult favourite to mainstream star.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

"By dissecting which immune cells are involved and how they coordinate the response, we're offering vaccine developers some additional mechanistic insights to consider in their goal of optimizing these vaccines against tumor proteins."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

The Democratic Party found itself trapped in a similar dynamic earlier this month, when the Democratic National Committee released a long-awaited, 192-page report dissecting the 2024 loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

I remembered gutting fish with Sookie the day we talked about why Mom liked dissecting things.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen




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