dissection
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Even the famous concluding quintet, “To leave, to break,” a bitter dissection of love, was noisy rather than poignant or profound.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
He gave lectures on bird dissection and the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, who was a medical student in Edinburgh at the same time, was in attendance.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
To him, presenting “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish is revolutionary, as is “John Proctor Is the Villain’s” dissection of a classic through a feminist lens.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026
"This is a very significant finding; it is the first genetic dissection of Race 4 resistance from this wild subspecies."
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
A contemporary of Leeuwenhoek’s, Jan Swammerdam, showed that butterflies, which had been regarded as new creatures born out of the pupa, were already present within the caterpillar: their organs could be identified by dissection.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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