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dissection

noun as in cutting up, particularly of a dead body

noun as in thorough analysis

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Eisman launched a ruthlessly reasonable dissection of the U.S. financial system.

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“The shutdown was a big factor, negative for the Republicans,” he told his party’s senators in a dissection of Tuesday’s Democratic sweep of votes in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia, and California.

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Kahn’s most representational works are his least interesting; it’s in the careful dissection of his elements and the revelation of what we’re looking at that the most joy is found.

The dynamic relationship of critique and metacritique, rational dissection and passionate assertion, made the Renaissance great.

Your screenplay’s dissection of our modern culture is so complex.

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