anatomize

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With the pandemic-set parent-child drama “The Falls,” the prolific director pulls back from the novelistic scope of its predecessor to anatomize the evolution of an estranged bond made whole again.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2022

They anatomize sunspots by way of US astronomer George Ellery Hale, who pioneered their observation with his 1889 invention of the spectroheliograph.

From Nature • Jul. 18, 2017

Dirda’s style, likewise, is seductively transparent while being devilishly difficult to anatomize or duplicate.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2015

As tech bloggers ripped open the latest iPhone to anatomize its guts, a ritual known as a “teardown,” you could sense deflation.

From Forbes • Oct. 9, 2013

And with these two pricks of her needle she left them both more or less discomfited, and went to scrutinize and anatomize her mistress's heart with plenty of cunning, but no mercy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various