How to Use psychoanalyze in a Sentence

psychoanalyze

verb

• Writers gathered in a room to psychoanalyze the storyline of each episode before one of them would lay down words in a script.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2020
• And President Carter, with his Malaise Speech in the late '70s, he was always psychoanalyzed by some of his critics.
  — NBC News, 22 Oct. 2017
• The men were too busy fondling fenders and stroking steering wheels to psychoanalyze themselves.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 18 June 2017
• My partner considers her a killjoy who psychoanalyzes him too much; others in our group have complained about her mooching.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 3 Aug. 2017
• Over the course of After Kathy Acker, Kraus has been inside her diaries, burrowed inside her friendships, psychoanalyzed and praised a little and recorded much.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 14 Sep. 2017
• All the people psychoanalyzing Grande's ring or her recent trips to Disneyland and furniture stores can calm down.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 21 June 2018
• If Sigmund Freud were to psychoanalyze the Jazz, the good doctor would pronounce them mentally and emotionally whole.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
• Within the span of two minutes, these people had psychoanalyzed my porn habits and actually taught me something about myself.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 30 Oct. 2017
• Fourth, looking beyond the four corners of the policy, the court throws out the policy by psychoanalyzing the commander-in-chief based on his tweets, cable-news interviews, and even campaign statements.
  — Josh Blackman, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
• Having the ability to psychoanalyze and relate to others while experiencing some of your first traumatic moments is no easy task.
  — Zane Pickett, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• More critically, the claim that our current crisis has economic roots does not rest on psychoanalyzing the Trumpen proletariat.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 23 May 2018
• Art lovers may have to transform their analysis of art—spending hours interpreting a stylistic choice or psychoanalyzing a creator’s intent—when such questions of intent are put to the black box of an artificial neural network.
  — Gabriel Nicholas, Slate Magazine, 11 Dec. 2017
• Shaun is a supermom who’s always one barefoot step ahead of the opportunistic crew, led by Eddie (Billy Burke), who spends more time psychoanalyzing her than actually getting anything done.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 10 May 2018
• Most biographers would be tempted to use these incidents to psychoanalyze Paul Simon, probing for inner traumas and deep-seated neuroses.
  — Ted Gioia, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• The film privileges Shaun as a supermom who's always one barefoot step ahead of the opportunistic crew, led by Eddie (Billy Burke), who spends more time psychoanalyzing her than actually getting anything done.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
• Frum does not attempt to psychoanalyze Trump, but the author pointedly identifies his shortcomings, especially his one-way view of loyalty.
  — John Diaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
• That worries employees who are wary of being psychoanalyzed by software, and some employment lawyers fret that AI programs might contain biases that could lead to workplace discrimination.
  — Imani Moise, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
• Ugh, this is just getting tedious: Now Becca's psychoanalyzing Arie and Lauren's relationship.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 6 Mar. 2018
• There is often little use in psychoanalyzing Donald Trump: His behavior is so erratic, his thinking so shallow that any definitive assertion about his character or temperament is disproven within minutes.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2019
• Gordon is a profiler, like detectives who specialize in studying and psychoanalyzing serial killers and other dangerous criminals.
  — Michelle Delio, WIRED, 29 May 2001

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