dissection
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To him, presenting “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish is revolutionary, as is “John Proctor Is the Villain’s” dissection of a classic through a feminist lens.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026
"This is a very significant finding; it is the first genetic dissection of Race 4 resistance from this wild subspecies."
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
Wider, diverse sets of genres make films like these all the more appealing to audiences, and in turn, proliferate the public discussion and dissection of these movies as time goes on.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026
The dynamic relationship of critique and metacritique, rational dissection and passionate assertion, made the Renaissance great.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
A contemporary of Leeuwenhoek’s, Jan Swammerdam, showed that butterflies, which had been regarded as new creatures born out of the pupa, were already present within the caterpillar: their organs could be identified by dissection.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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