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dissect

[dih-sekt, dahy-] / dɪˈsɛkt, daɪ- /




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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

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

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

Noodles continued to dissect all the stuff he thought was deep about comics, and how when he draws them, he adds tattoos and jewelry and stuff like that to make them more current.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds

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

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

He carefully dissects what they said and what they likely meant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

And it quickly becomes clear how she dissects her characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

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

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

Recalling the model airplane sets he assembled as a child, he arranged a fish, a chicken and a duck as a collection of dissected parts on a tabletop, labeling it with instructions for reconstruction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The merits or otherwise of these opinions will now be dissected and analysed - and Carrick knows it.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Between meals, Don José sketched rather than dissected the cadavers and caught up on his sleep on a bench below a Gauguin and alongside several Van Goghs in the Prado.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

"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

"Art breaks down the borders and boundaries of our imagination; it poses questions, and playing with and dissecting it expands and challenges our present reality," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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

That learning about the Pythagorean theorem and arpeggios and dissecting worms is the only thing that could keep her mind off it.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy


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