dissect
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Some are by amateur forensic analysts and would-be internet sleuths with podcast names like The Murder Men that dissect the killing as if it’s a 1980s cold case.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
One is that the market is slow to react to pure news that has “high quantitative intensity” — articles that dissect a company’s income or balance sheet, for example.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026
Commentators spend time trying to dissect the reactions of those within it.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
If you dissect the reasons that most don’t actually earn those mythical buy-and-hold returns, losing money in bear markets isn’t the biggest reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
I thank him, and he heads back home to shoot his potato launcher, or dissect bugs, or whatever a kid like him does with his free time.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Graham Greene dissects the human heart, laying bare its irreconcilable contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Like any kind of fandom, HahaYes dissects each and every seemingly meaningless Musk tweet, searching desperately for hidden meaning to a point of near-delusion.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025
Mainard’s show, “Ottis,” dissects the relationship between their queer identity and their rural Texas upbringing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
He has impressed with the way he dissects football and thinks about the game, but also sometimes comes off as easily irritable.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024
Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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The German creator of the controversial "Body Worlds" exhibitions of dissected human and animal bodies, Gunther von Hagens, has died at age 81, his family said Monday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Gunther von Hagens, the creator of the controversial "Body Worlds" exhibitions where dissected human and animal bodies were displayed, has died at the age of 81, according to his family.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The bodies of women were sometimes dissected but rarely reported.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
Hall in 1994, an otherwise routine vote-dilution case, Justice Thomas took the opportunity to write a concurrence that dissected the Court’s Thornburg v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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As she approached the momentous milestone, Saar appeared more interested in creating new art than in dissecting her legacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
"Art breaks down the borders and boundaries of our imagination; it poses questions, and playing with and dissecting it expands and challenges our present reality," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Leopold Aschenbrenner has attracted a cult following online, with fans dissecting his every move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
But investors were already dissecting the summations of the talks issued by the two countries afterward.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Back at the Institute, Nancy Jaax again stayed up until one o’clock in the morning, dissecting monkeys with her hot-zone buddy, Ron Trotter.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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