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  • verb Present participle of anatomize.

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Examples

  • The Hare Checklist is brilliant at anatomizing the barely noticeable character traits evident in psychopaths.

    Five Reasons To Be Concerned Your Husband Is A Psychopath 2011

  • Mr. Decker digs deeply into Astaire's creative process, anatomizing what went into each production.

    He Just Had to Move Will Friedwald 2011

  • Or that the job of anatomizing his mystery should be left either to the gossip-hounds Kitty Kelley, J.

    When Sinatra had the world on a string Louis Bayard 2010

  • Each installment devotes a certain amount of energy to moving the story on, and much more to encyclopedically anatomizing world and character.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • Or that the job of anatomizing his mystery should be left either to the gossip-hounds Kitty Kelley, J.

    When Sinatra had the world on a string Louis Bayard 2010

  • Each installment devotes a certain amount of energy to moving the story on, and much more to encyclopedically anatomizing world and character.

    Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 5: The Fires of Heaven (1993) Adam Roberts 2010

  • It seems like the idea that SF has ever made "promises" and has failed by not keeping them is the kind of topic you would write one of those long posts about, anatomizing and reassembling ...

    SF Promised Me a Flying Car Hal Duncan 2008

  • "Letters to My Torturer" is further distinguished by its precise anatomizing of the curious closeness that grows between torturer and tortured.

    Memories of Iran 2010

  • Each installment devotes a certain amount of energy to moving the story on, and much more to encyclopedically anatomizing world and character.

    Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (1990-2005) Adam Roberts 2010

  • Should a dangling modifier need reattaching, a sentence fragment suturing, or a metaphor anatomizing in a storm, however, I will be first on the scene.

    Excerpt: Soldier's Heart by Elizabeth Samet 2007

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