anatomize

They make their lives from the bits of gender and love and culture they’ve been given, and there’s no place to stand outside that messy process and anatomize, dissect or categorize them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2021

And the production wore its frailties so flamboyantly and desperately, it was a cinch to anatomize them.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

They anatomize sunspots by way of US astronomer George Ellery Hale, who pioneered their observation with his 1889 invention of the spectroheliograph.

From Nature ● Jul. 18, 2017

Leigh’s work has largely been focused on contemporary ensemble pieces that anatomize British society, made in collaboration with a dedicated repertory of actors who fashion each film from an intensive process of improvised rehearsals.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2014

How fortunate was Hawthorne at the age of thirty thus to anatomize the chief illusions of life, which so many others follow until old age!

From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns

British novelist John le Carré, who anatomized Cold War spycraft and sometimes even influenced it, has died after a short illness at the age of 89.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

At such moments, you may even feel that it’s your own cluttered, consumerist mind that’s being anatomized up there.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

The conclusion to “American Notes,” of 1842, a book that won him few friends in the land that he had toured, anatomized what he had found there:

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2016

Her guitar tone is produced warmly, which makes one feel comforted even if they’re being emotionally anatomized.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2015

At the time of his death he had anatomized over 500 different species of animals, some of them repeatedly, and had made numerous dissections of plants.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

Mr. Harbach has likely exposed himself to criticism by anatomizing feminist politics and assuming the perspectives of 20-something coeds, though I think his characterizations are generous and insightful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

She has always had plenty to say about that, but now she is more interested in anatomizing all the forces that carved her into the woman she is today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2021

Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2018

It’s a great environment for anatomizing an uncommonly thoughtful family, which is held together by Marshall’s softly determined Barbara.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2015

The anatomizing of the dead lion finds numerous analogies in those myths and fairy tales in which dismemberment of the body appears.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe