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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

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

Dirda’s style, likewise, is seductively transparent while being devilishly difficult to anatomize or duplicate.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2015

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

In the pithy language of Sir William Hamilton, he “did not anatomize, but truncate.”

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Over the last quarter-century, the book as physical organism has been increasingly anatomized, and there has been no better medium for displaying anatomists’ findings than the book itself.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

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

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

Then, having satisfactorily anatomized McKinstry, he turned to the evening again with open senses, the sensitive pulsing of his wide nostrils telling that even the milky scent of the full-uddered cows gave him keen enjoyment.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

She has always had plenty to say about that, but now she is more interested in anatomizing all the forces that carved her into the woman she is today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2021

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

In its anatomizing of the psychodynamics of the rehearsal room, the play bears a resemblance to David Ives’s “Venus in Fur.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2015

Each incident of Internet straying brings its own gleeful anatomizing.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013

But anatomizing their anguish, these creatures finally decided that it might not be spring fever, but merely hunger.

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley