deconstruct

This isn’t the kind of delicious, schadenfreude-dipped publishing-world drama about a bad art friend that other writers love to deconstruct in group texts.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

“It took me a long time to deconstruct my faith.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Mr. Enrigue feels called upon to deconstruct the genre of the western, even if that means undermining the excellent story in his own novel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

It was shut down in 2022 and sold to Holtec, which was expected to deconstruct the buildings and store the nuclear waste.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

Without saying a word to one another, we started to deconstruct each of our city sections by chunks and bricks.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

To illustrate how essential bee pollination is to our food supply, Mr. Hanson deconstructs a Big Mac.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Sam Adams deconstructs how The Lego Movie transformed the way Hollywood blockbusters are built.

From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2024

A line of machines deconstructs polypropylene plastic from the backing layer of carpets, before creating pellets that can be used in new carpets, car body bumpers and storage containers.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023

Committed to abstraction, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” deconstructs its own stage magic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

"I'm beginning to think you shouldn't have started reading comics with a book that completely deconstructs the last fifty years of the genre," he said.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

Influencer Nara Smith, known for her elaborate deconstructed cooking videos, revealed one of the four children she shares with model Lucky Blue Smith is battling cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

To highlight this concern, Colas deconstructed the nominal daily 5-year U.S.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

A “hostility to the old Anglo-Saxon establishment,” Mr. Wooldridge writes, has meant traditional values are rejected wholesale and every intellectual discipline is deconstructed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

The art that he created there embodies a kind of deconstructed narcissism; Samaras is fascinated with himself, but mostly as—to paraphrase the photographer Garry Winogrand’s choice of subjects—“something to be photographed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Nan looked at the deconstructed bike and then back and forth between Abby and me.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

When the world order they were constructed within is deconstructing in dramatic fashion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

A small team in the U.S. military’s research and engineering office put together plans to build an attack drone based on deconstructing a Shahed the military had recovered from Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

“I grew up deconstructing everything I was getting from the West, including Hollywood movies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Ms Beer said her hearing loss and the music she created as a result of it was helping to raise awareness of environmental issues, as well as deconstructing stereotypes about disability.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2024

My artwork isn’t evolving, it’s deconstructing, and I don’t know why.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman