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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

Noodles continued to dissect all the stuff he thought was deep about comics, and how when he draws them, he adds tattoos and jewelry and stuff like that to make them more current.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds

He dissects the “brainless” mistakes by the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders over the weekend that led to embarrassing finishes for both teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

And it quickly becomes clear how she dissects her characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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

That became evident only after the animals were dissected and genetically analysed in the field laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Most of that gap came via the right arm of sophomore quarterback Ford Green, who dissected the Chargers, completing 14 of 18 passes for 257 yards and four touchdowns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Scientists observed oysters in glass vats, dissected their innards and studied their anatomy under microscopes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

But then, as his eyes dissected my expression, his smile faded and his forehead creased.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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

"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

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

He made her feel as though the world belonged to them—as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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