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The starting point for their analysis is the double-edged impact of a used book market on the market for new books.

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  1. noun The separation of an intellectual or material whole into its constituent parts for individual study.
  2. noun The study of such constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole.
  3. noun A spoken or written presentation of such study: published an analysis of poetic meter.
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  • The starting point for their analysis is the double-edged impact of a used book market on the market for new books. —  Dubious Quality
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  • However, my analysis is attempting not to epistemologically solve the issue of the ontological binary of meaning since that in itself presents us with the paradox of our methodology. —  THAT Animeblog
  • Gone from his analysis is any consideration that Zhao Ziyang might have shown "restraint" not just out of "sympathy", but as a matter of internal party politics, specifically his desire, with Hu Yaobang, to re-shape China to be more capitalist under his liberalizing leadership. —  Crossroads Arabia
  • Key to this analysis is the question of whether one thinks the rise of housing prices was an artificial bubble or if the collapse is reversible and we can return to those highs. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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  1. Medieval Latin, from Greek analusis, a dissolving, from analūein, to undo : ana-, throughout; see ana- + lūein, to loosen; see leu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly analyse, from French analyse = Portuguese analyse or analysis = Spanish análisis = Italian analisi, from Middle Latin analysis, from Greek ἀνάλυσις, a dissolving, resolution of a whole into its parts, solution of a problem, analysis, literally a loosing, from ἀναλύειν, resolve into its elements, analyze, literally loosen, undo, from ἀνά, back, + λύειν, loosen: see loosen.
 

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