vivisection
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Dahl’s wit may be mostly used for emotional vivisection, but it still glitters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Other readers will hear in this vivisection of a dysfunctional family a Franzenesque attention to the great forces pulsing through American culture.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022
This is the gift "I Know This Much Is True" offers, a lengthy, lyrical vivisection of intertwined lives made of epic woe.
From Salon ● May 10, 2020
Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results to-day!
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing vivisection
Dracula
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 27–30
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Challenge, List 5
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