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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

Commentators spend time trying to dissect the reactions of those within it.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Within that is a highly opinionated core who gather online to dissect everything from clue construction to player etiquette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Kinda weird that he would hang over the ocean, tagging sharks in the name of science, but he wouldn’t call a biologist to dissect the one he caught, right?

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

He carefully dissects what they said and what they likely meant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

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

Meredith Lynch, a Los Angeles native, writer and influencer who frequently dissects influencer culture online, says the Beverly Hills location, in particular, has become a stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 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

Last week, US pop star Olivia Rodrigo kicked off her Unraveled tour, and surprises from the show, which scores of fans have paid a lot of money to see, have already been dissected online.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Ford made their name with the micro-indie, micro-focused “Test Pattern,” an act of upending as it dissected an interracial relationship’s fault lines in a moment of crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The researchers dissected the sharks' eyes and preserved them in a fixative solution so they could later be studied.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 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

Belet dissected an apple with two swift knife strokes.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

As Levine was dissecting the painting, an associate professor of Spanish historical linguistics at Utrecht University named Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen was researching her family tree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

In a four-star review, external, the Times noted how Heaton's "casually funny" and "deceptively piercing" latest album "again confirms his gift for dissecting human weakness with an unsentimental but humane eye".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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

But considering the choice had become dissecting a frog or hanging out with Mikayla and Janie, I chose the less vile option.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller




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