dissect
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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
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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
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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
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"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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