as in analysis
the separation and identification of the parts of a whole
the book's dissection of the problem of obesity in this country
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Last year, a 33-year-old man was arrested twice in three days outside the TriBeCa home of Taylor Swift, another singer whose words are regularly the subject of speculation and dissection.
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Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
That his work, a deft dissection of the dangers of power and the mutability of empire, remains as relevant as ever would have seemed so obvious to him as to not bear mentioning.
—New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Lee Chang-dong adopts a novella by Haruki Murakami into a riveting dissection of class and gender in modern Korea.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
The first time anyone saw the whale in the flesh was in 2010, when a mother and calf were stranded in the Bay of Plenty on New Zealand’s North Island, but the carcasses weren’t suitable for dissection.
—Lex Harvey, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
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Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
That his work, a deft dissection of the dangers of power and the mutability of empire, remains as relevant as ever would have seemed so obvious to him as to not bear mentioning.
—New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Lee Chang-dong adopts a novella by Haruki Murakami into a riveting dissection of class and gender in modern Korea.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
The first time anyone saw the whale in the flesh was in 2010, when a mother and calf were stranded in the Bay of Plenty on New Zealand’s North Island, but the carcasses weren’t suitable for dissection.
—Lex Harvey, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for dissection
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“Dissection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissection. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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