as in to analyze
to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships
if you anatomize the problem, you'll see it stems from a combination of her bad behavior and your unwillingness to speak to her about it
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Recent Examples of anatomize
The film joins countless other creative efforts to understand and anatomize the movie star born Norma Jeane Mortensen, including biopics, TV series, biographies, photo books, essays, and even plays.
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Nathan Smith,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2022
And some of it was a compulsive need to re-define and re-anatomize what Carmichael and Hamilton had already defined and anatomized so well.
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Samanth Subramanian,
Quartz,
1 Apr. 2021
Kundera, meanwhile, made his career on novels that anatomized kitsch and subsequently became kitsch, thanks to a generation of earnest high schoolers.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
9 Oct. 2019
This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes.
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Jeremy Eichler,
BostonGlobe.com,
18 June 2018
Nathan Smith,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2022
And some of it was a compulsive need to re-define and re-anatomize what Carmichael and Hamilton had already defined and anatomized so well.
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Samanth Subramanian,
Quartz,
1 Apr. 2021
Kundera, meanwhile, made his career on novels that anatomized kitsch and subsequently became kitsch, thanks to a generation of earnest high schoolers.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
9 Oct. 2019
This is just one of many intergenerational failings that Kafka anatomizes.
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Jeremy Eichler,
BostonGlobe.com,
18 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anatomize
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Cisco has built and is refining an AI tool for investor relations that analyzes its financial history alongside competitors’ earnings calls and can anticipate likely questions from specific analysts.
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In the new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers analyzed electronic health records from 2001 to 2023 for more than 700,000 pairs of mothers and children in Hong Kong.
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Join forces and sign up for our subscriber-exclusive newsletter dissecting House of the Dragon season three.
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From the frantic frenzy surrounding royal nuptials to the way the internet dissected every possible clue from Zendaya and Tom Holland before they were revealed to have officially tied the knot, weddings like these are a cultural event.
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Apple examines each application and each update of every third-party app, and if these don’t meet Apple’s definition of acceptable, then they are not allowed to be installed.
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These agencies examine the water in comparison to contamination thresholds to determine if the area is swimmable.
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“Anatomize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anatomize. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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