pick apart

Example Sentences

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"We have a treasure chest in our hands now that we can pick apart and explore," Briner says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

You’ll watch Rex Ryan pick apart your decisions and mutter to yourself: Rex Ryan?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

The pair who still insisted they were the Turenges spent a day in separate interrogation rooms, where detectives tried to pick apart their story.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

Fischer, of Amnesty International, said it’s harder to cleanly pick apart policies that are laid out in executive orders that overlap and rely on one another.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025

But I couldn’t pick apart exactly what was pulsing through me.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken