pick apart
Example Sentences
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You’ll watch Rex Ryan pick apart your decisions and mutter to yourself: Rex Ryan?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
The pair who still insisted they were the Turenges spent a day in separate interrogation rooms, where detectives tried to pick apart their story.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
"This is something that investigators will really need to pick apart piece by piece, and that is going to take some really significant time," Muntean said.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2025
A lot of teams are happy not to have the Bengals in the play-offs because Burrow can pick apart anybody.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
But I couldn’t pick apart exactly what was pulsing through me.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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