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dissect

[dih-sekt, dahy-] / dɪˈsɛkt, daɪ- /




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Yet the majority of the songs were concerned with a broken relationship, hopelessly dissecting what went wrong.

From BBC

Doctors need to know how the human body is put together, and there is no substitute for dissecting a corpse and looking inside.

From The Wall Street Journal

They dissect ingredient lists, film unboxings and record "Get Ready With Me" videos built around ideas such as "glass skin", sheet masks and, of course, snail mucin.

From BBC

Everything nowadays is documented, live-streamed and dissected, so his silence represented something my generation is deeply uncomfortable with: the absence of a narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal

Graham Greene dissects the human heart, laying bare its irreconcilable contradictions.

From The Wall Street Journal