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anatomize

[uh-nat-uh-mahyz] / əˈnæt əˌmaɪz /


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They make their lives from the bits of gender and love and culture they’ve been given, and there’s no place to stand outside that messy process and anatomize, dissect or categorize them.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 6, 2021

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

It would be too curious to anatomize the writhings of his proud little spirit.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch

British novelist John le Carré, who anatomized Cold War spycraft and sometimes even influenced it, has died after a short illness at the age of 89.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 14, 2020

Mills’s wife, Miranda July, a writer and filmmaker with the steely fragility of a Buster Keaton, once anatomized guys like Mills in a short story.

From The New Yorker Jan. 1, 2017

Her guitar tone is produced warmly, which makes one feel comforted even if they’re being emotionally anatomized.

From The Guardian Oct. 9, 2015

In her six novels, she anatomized each with an unflinching boldness that was, and remains, unparalleled.”

From Salon Jun. 13, 2012

It is more reasonable to believe that in the era preceding immediately that of Mondino, human bodies were being opened and after a fashion anatomized.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.

Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning play reached us with most of the original cast intact, including Reed Birney and Jayne Houdyshell, who reprised their Tony-winning performances in this family drama anatomizing the precarious plight of middle-class Americans.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2018

It’s a great environment for anatomizing an uncommonly thoughtful family, which is held together by Marshall’s softly determined Barbara.

From Washington Post Nov. 9, 2015

In its anatomizing of the psychodynamics of the rehearsal room, the play bears a resemblance to David Ives’s “Venus in Fur.”

From New York Times Sep. 17, 2015

Each incident of Internet straying brings its own gleeful anatomizing.

From Slate Feb. 1, 2013

Yet, in truth, she had no notion of anatomizing her thoughts or feelings.

From A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel by Coghill, Harry, Mrs.




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