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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

Voters, he said, don’t dissect candidates’ identities and attributes the way political professionals do.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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

We were given special opportunities, including weekly trips to a community college to attend an advanced writing workshop or dissect a rat in the biology lab.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

She dissects those feelings of inadequacy with pitch-black humour on In My Room.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

Its current season dissects “An American Tragedy,” which I haven’t read.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

As he does in the book, the legendary actor dissects how he approached the role, adding a digression about Joseph Stalin being scariest when he went quiet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

To reveal how all production processes work and illuminate the choreography of efficiency, “Origins” dissects a variety of examples, including the early production of nails, books, lightbulbs and cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

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

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

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

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

Ted was in his third year in pre-med, his choice, he told me, ever since he dissected a fetal pig in the sixth grade.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

This week, my feed was flooded with people dissecting the trailer and early coverage surrounding the upcoming documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything,” co-directed by comedian Nathan Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

My mind races, dissecting my every recent move.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen




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