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dissection

[dih-sek-shuhn, dahy-] / dɪˈsɛk ʃən, daɪ- /




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"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

The dynamic relationship of critique and metacritique, rational dissection and passionate assertion, made the Renaissance great.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Your screenplay’s dissection of our modern culture is so complex.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025

Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his third album, People Watching, a steely-eyed dissection of working-class life in the north of England.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

It was this work that soon convinced Vesalius that Galen had had little or no experience of human dissection and encouraged him to prepare his own book on human anatomy.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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