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dissect

[dih-sekt, dahy-] / dɪˈsɛkt, daɪ- /




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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

Normally, identifying a new octopus species requires scientists to dissect the specimen and closely study features such as the mouth, beak, and teeth.

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

The Supreme Court justices will now dissect the language and issue a decision.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 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

Jewelry historian Marion Fasel dissects famous diamond engagement rings, including a late 1400s Renaissance point-cut ring and the 2014 cushion-cut ring Dwyane Wade gave Gabrielle Union.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 28, 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

In some news conferences, Glasner confidently dissects opposition tactics to the media - even doing so when his side faced Manchester City and Pep Guardiola in December.

From BBC May 17, 2025

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

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

When Raducanu dissected her French Open first-round exit just three weeks ago in Paris, things looked much bleaker.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

“I immediately said, ‘This is genius,’” said Emily Schwartz, a pop-culture commentator who dissected the ad on TikTok.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Last year, after Indian regulators accused Jane Street of market manipulation, Gerko dissected the case in LinkedIn posts: “The whole thing appears to stink very badly,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

And, crucially, for a stretch, “Euphoria” made HBO feel like a destination again, with episodes that demanded to be seen in real time and dissected instantly before the night was over.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

By Monday morning—the day after he dissected Monkey 053—Dan Dalgard had decided to bring the problem with his monkeys to the attention of usamriid, at Fort Detrick.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

From Barron's May 14, 2026

The win once again silenced critics who have spent years dissecting the character of Dubois as much as his boxing ability.

From BBC May 10, 2026

This required extremely delicate lab work, including dissecting individual nurse bees.

From Science Daily Mar. 27, 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

We spent the rest of the walk dissecting sentence structures and most of Spanish on a minute description of Mike’s facial expressions.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer




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