pick apart
Example Sentences
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You’ll watch Rex Ryan pick apart your decisions and mutter to yourself: Rex Ryan?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
And just like last week, junior quarterback Jayden Maiava was content to sit back and pick apart an inferior defense.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025
The pair who still insisted they were the Turenges spent a day in separate interrogation rooms, where detectives tried to pick apart their story.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
He could pick apart an argument you made with one or two incisive slashes of history, facts, humor or logic, mostly all four put together in ways you’d never heard before.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
Instead he jumped up on Mother’s quilt and prepared to pick apart his breakfast.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
