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LuPone has two big numbers, both of which anatomize the ambivalence of married life: “The Little Things You Do Together” in the first act and “The Ladies Who Lunch” in the second.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2022

It is the lack of proximity to those stories, the immediacy of hearing loved ones talk about their own experience of this “dark winter,” that makes this darkness so difficult to comprehend and anatomize.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2020

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

As tech bloggers ripped open the latest iPhone to anatomize its guts, a ritual known as a “teardown,” you could sense deflation.

From Forbes ● Oct. 9, 2013

With them on it did he anatomize these bodie-wanting mots, Dulce puella malum est.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse

British novelist John le Carré, who anatomized Cold War spycraft and sometimes even influenced it, has died after a short illness at the age of 89.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

At such moments, you may even feel that it’s your own cluttered, consumerist mind that’s being anatomized up there.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

The conclusion to “American Notes,” of 1842, a book that won him few friends in the land that he had toured, anatomized what he had found there:

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2016

Her guitar tone is produced warmly, which makes one feel comforted even if they’re being emotionally anatomized.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2015

Water, too, is a thing to be anatomized, a sort of rib-fluidity.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning play reached us with most of the original cast intact, including Reed Birney and Jayne Houdyshell, who reprised their Tony-winning performances in this family drama anatomizing the precarious plight of middle-class Americans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2018

Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2018

It’s a great environment for anatomizing an uncommonly thoughtful family, which is held together by Marshall’s softly determined Barbara.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2015

Each incident of Internet straying brings its own gleeful anatomizing.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013

The anatomizing of the dead lion finds numerous analogies in those myths and fairy tales in which dismemberment of the body appears.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe