anatomize

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LuPone has two big numbers, both of which anatomize the ambivalence of married life: “The Little Things You Do Together” in the first act and “The Ladies Who Lunch” in the second.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 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

Our evidence, with respect to the existence of other minds, is founded upon a very complicated relation of ideas, which it is foreign to the purpose of this treatise to anatomize.

From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Shelley, Percy Bysshe