anatomize

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They make their lives from the bits of gender and love and culture they’ve been given, and there’s no place to stand outside that messy process and anatomize, dissect or categorize them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2021

Vargas Llosa knows how the levers of power in his country work, and he uses his story to anatomize the degradation of civic life under Fujimori.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018

They anatomize sunspots by way of US astronomer George Ellery Hale, who pioneered their observation with his 1889 invention of the spectroheliograph.

From Nature • Jul. 18, 2017

Leigh’s work has largely been focused on contemporary ensemble pieces that anatomize British society, made in collaboration with a dedicated repertory of actors who fashion each film from an intensive process of improvised rehearsals.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2014

I speak but brotherly     of him; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush     and weep, and thou must look pale and wonder.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William