dissect
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The specimens are irreplaceable, so we could not dissect them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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
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
When she saw the note, she knew that she would be putting on a space suit and going in to dissect the monkeys.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Its current season dissects “An American Tragedy,” which I haven’t read.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026
To reveal how all production processes work and illuminate the choreography of efficiency, “Origins” dissects a variety of examples, including the early production of nails, books, lightbulbs and cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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
Mainard’s show, “Ottis,” dissects the relationship between their queer identity and their rural Texas upbringing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 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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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
Most of that gap came via the right arm of sophomore quarterback Ford Green, who dissected the Chargers, completing 14 of 18 passes for 257 yards and four touchdowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The researchers dissected the sharks' eyes and preserved them in a fixative solution so they could later be studied.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Scientists observed oysters in glass vats, dissected their innards and studied their anatomy under microscopes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Belet dissected an apple with two swift knife strokes.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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Before dissecting a scene, Dalton studies the character within the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"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
Leopold Aschenbrenner has attracted a cult following online, with fans dissecting his every move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
She says she feels sick to her stomach just thinking about putting her dissecting knife through its skin.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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