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dissect

[dih-sekt, dahy-] / dɪˈsɛkt, daɪ- /




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The specimens are irreplaceable, so we could not dissect them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

For anyone who watched McCarthy fizzle in Minnesota, his sudden ability to dissect defenses comes as a complete shock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Some are by amateur forensic analysts and would-be internet sleuths with podcast names like The Murder Men that dissect the killing as if it’s a 1980s cold case.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

Voters, he said, don’t dissect candidates’ identities and attributes the way political professionals do.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

The boy strode to the kitchen before Butler’s gaze could dissect him.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

He dissects the “brainless” mistakes by the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders over the weekend that led to embarrassing finishes for both teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Its current season dissects “An American Tragedy,” which I haven’t read.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 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

Meredith Lynch, a Los Angeles native, writer and influencer who frequently dissects influencer culture online, says the Beverly Hills location, in particular, has become a stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Somewhere in Tau’s servers, hours of video footage may be getting dissected frame by frame, annotated and then used to train more capable robots.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

When researchers dissected the plants, they discovered that a species of predatory wasp was using the hollow chambers for an entirely different purpose.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Last week, US pop star Olivia Rodrigo kicked off her Unraveled tour, and surprises from the show, which scores of fans have paid a lot of money to see, have already been dissected online.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Ford made their name with the micro-indie, micro-focused “Test Pattern,” an act of upending as it dissected an interracial relationship’s fault lines in a moment of crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

They cut apart birds to trace the structure of the avian skeleton, and, masked in leather hoods, they dissected a skunk.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

"It came as a pleasant surprise to find that a simple procedure of dissecting the median nerve under ultrasound guidance with normal saline provided them long-term relief."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

As Levine was dissecting the painting, an associate professor of Spanish historical linguistics at Utrecht University named Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen was researching her family tree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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

Her latest single, Praying Mantis, which released this week, has once again made her a talking point, with fans dissecting the dark, hypnotic track online.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into dissecting cubes.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson


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