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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
anatomize .
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Examples
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From his silence on the point, Wills, we must conclude, has never suffered any qualms, like those Janet Malcolm anatomizes in "The Journalist and the Murderer," about the moral ambiguities inherent in the journalistic enterprise.
In the background, taking notes Post 2010
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From his silence on the point, Wills, we must conclude, has never suffered any qualms, like those Janet Malcolm anatomizes in "The Journalist and the Murderer," about the moral ambiguities inherent in the journalistic enterprise.
In the background, taking notes Post 2010
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In this masterly portrait of provincial life in 19th-century England, George Eliot anatomizes the fictional town of Middlemarch.
Books on Reputation Tina Brown 2009
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With remorselessly and delightfully mordant wit, The White Tiger anatomizes the fantastic cravings of the rich; it evokes, too, with startling accuracy and tenderness, the no less desperate struggles of the deprived.
THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008
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The emerging field of border studies anatomizes these domains of interface; and in the process, allows us to see how the domestic and the foreign are constantly making and remaking one another.
Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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A professor at the Naval War College anatomizes the Iraqi insurgency and assesses the long road still ahead.
Cover to Cover 2006
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A professor at the Naval War College anatomizes the Iraqi insurgency and assesses the long road still ahead.
Cover to Cover 2006
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But E.M. Forster also anatomizes with precision and wit the tensions within the prosperous middle class itself: between the artistic, intellectual, progressive Schlegel family and the materialistic, philistine, conservative Wilcoxes -- on whom the Schlegels, whether or not they like to admit it, are economically dependent.
Five Best 2008
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While it is true that the passage anatomizes body parts, and true that when the two interlocuters hear the story of the youth who gluts his passion on the marble statue, the narrator exclaims that "he made love to the statue as though to a boy" (177), this missed detail of
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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A professor at the Naval War College anatomizes the Iraqi insurgency and assesses the long road still ahead.
Cover to Cover 2006
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