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dissection

noun as in cutting up, particularly of a dead body

noun as in thorough analysis

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My forthcoming book, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy," is a dissection of that movement.

From Salon

CNN’s four-part series “The Many Lives of Martha Stewart,” which aired in January, is probably the most comprehensive and evenhanded dissection of Stewart’s life and career to date that doesn’t include her voice.

From Salon

Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn, one of the judges and a meteorologist, said the winning image was an "impressive dissection of the fleeting few seconds" when Baily's beads can be seen.

From BBC

The dissection eventually led her to conclude that if you removed both the heel and the hard inner shank of a heeled shoe, it could stand flat on the ground.

Between 1974 and ’82, she released six albums in tandem with her ex-husband, the master guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson, culminating in “Shoot Out the Lights,” a work consecrated by critics, in part because of its forensic dissection of the couple’s own crumbling marriage.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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