dissect
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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
"His match plans always worked. He would dissect the opponents and always find solutions with his analysis. It was phenomenal," he told Spox.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Normally, identifying a new octopus species requires scientists to dissect the specimen and closely study features such as the mouth, beak, and teeth.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026
At the table, Mom and Dad would dissect them with precision, leaving no meat to waste.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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He carefully dissects what they said and what they likely meant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
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
Enid’s sympathy is strong, but her class allegiance is stronger, setting up an intriguing character study that takes us into the heart of the societal dilemma Galsworthy diligently dissects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
He has impressed with the way he dissects football and thinks about the game, but also sometimes comes off as easily irritable.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024
Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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When Raducanu dissected her French Open first-round exit just three weeks ago in Paris, things looked much bleaker.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
But his defiance prompted a lengthy news cycle in which the 72-year-old coach was cooked on social media, his actions dissected under umbrellas of sportsmanship, race, and mansplaining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Mastick and her team opened 178 cans and carefully dissected the preserved fish, counting tiny parasitic worms known as anisakids embedded in the flesh.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Television habits have also changed since viewers once dissected tribal council proceedings at the office the next morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Each day we dissected big and small issues from morning until midnight.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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"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
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
But investors were already dissecting the summations of the talks issued by the two countries afterward.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
The win once again silenced critics who have spent years dissecting the character of Dubois as much as his boxing ability.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
But what a good time Claudius Templesmith must be having with his guest commentators, dissecting Peeta's behavior, my reaction.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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