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
Only Charles’s second wife, Camilla, whom Brown depicts as horse-y and unflappable, escapes royal vivisection.
From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2022
Perhaps best known for “Fates and Furies,” her vivisection of a marriage, Groff is a heavily allusive writer whose narratives typically carry a freight of sophisticated references.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021
Bartz takes the idea of a “frenemy” to new heights in her third thriller, yet another expert vivisection of female modes of communication and competition.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2021
Usually, his vivisection of Wilsons and Spaldings revealed cores consisting of extremely tightiy bundled rubber bands.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Dracula
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 27–30
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Challenge, List 5
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