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dissect

[dih-sekt, dahy-] / dɪˈsɛkt, daɪ- /




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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

Voters, he said, don’t dissect candidates’ identities and attributes the way political professionals do.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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

The way they dissect intricate moves and passing sequences; how Fernandes explains his thought process that led to Kobbie Mainoo's memorable second goal in the 2024 FA Cup final.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

I would’ve vastly preferred to have disappeared in that moment; instead of getting on the phone I wanted to dissect this conversation somewhere else, somewhere by myself.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

Its current season dissects “An American Tragedy,” which I haven’t read.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

He carefully dissects what they said and what they likely meant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

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

The group dissects the photo’s cinematic, informal composition, in which Pildas aims down from a berm, the neglected buildings behind the eclectic crew shrinking into the horizon, merging with the sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Somewhere in Tau’s servers, hours of video footage may be getting dissected frame by frame, annotated and then used to train more capable robots.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The elliptical and oblique aspects are made to be dissected by chat groups; meme-worthy images get endlessly recycled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Most of that gap came via the right arm of sophomore quarterback Ford Green, who dissected the Chargers, completing 14 of 18 passes for 257 yards and four touchdowns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

The researchers dissected the sharks' eyes and preserved them in a fixative solution so they could later be studied.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

In my lunch group, we dissected whatever had gone on that morning at school, any beefs we had with teachers, any assignments that struck us as useless.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

As Levine was dissecting the painting, an associate professor of Spanish historical linguistics at Utrecht University named Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen was researching her family tree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

In a four-star review, external, the Times noted how Heaton's "casually funny" and "deceptively piercing" latest album "again confirms his gift for dissecting human weakness with an unsentimental but humane eye".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Before dissecting a scene, Dalton studies the character within the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"By dissecting which immune cells are involved and how they coordinate the response, we're offering vaccine developers some additional mechanistic insights to consider in their goal of optimizing these vaccines against tumor proteins."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

He set about dissecting the merits and problems of “spermism” using experimental data from the biological world.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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