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dissect

[dih-sekt, dahy-] / dɪˈsɛkt, daɪ- /




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The company tried to dissect the attack logs using proprietary AI models, but was unable to because of security guardrails, so instead turned to an open-weight model from a Chinese developer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

Like I’m a frog she’s about to dissect on a lab table.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

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

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

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Somewhere in Tau’s servers, hours of video footage may be getting dissected frame by frame, annotated and then used to train more capable robots.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

When researchers dissected the plants, they discovered that a species of predatory wasp was using the hollow chambers for an entirely different purpose.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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

Leonardo had dissected his first cadaver decades before.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

“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

As she approached the momentous milestone, Saar appeared more interested in creating new art than in dissecting her legacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

Podcasters and influencers have been dissecting the parade of celebrity friends likely to attend, from longtime friend Selena Gomez, to frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff - but none have confirmed.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

We are given dissecting kits with scalpel-like knives that could be sharper, and trays with a coating of wax at the bottom, and a package of pins, as in sewing classes.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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