vivisection

noun

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as in biopsy

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Recent Examples of vivisection There certainly are other critiques of Trumpian corruption to be seen on Broadway this season, but few speak so eloquently as Mamet’s vivisection from 1983. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025 Mary Gaitskill is a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer celebrated by readers and critics (this one included) for her uncompromising acuity and clear-eyed vivisection of our mottled human nature. — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022 Now, 25 years later, under the moniker Tanner Leatherstein, Yildiz is parlaying his insight into leather into an addictive TikTok presence involving entertaining vivisections of designer leather bags. — Isabel Slone, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023 The Dangers of Animal Experimentation—for Doctors Livia Gershon Nineteenth-century opponents of vivisection warned that the practice could make researchers and physicians callous toward all living creatures. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 May 2018 See All Example Sentences for vivisection
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biopsy
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  • The content creator said her daughter underwent numerous X-rays, ultrasounds and a biopsy before the hospital team determined the cancer diagnosis.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • One of the biggest concerns is that someone with an incidental finding may then have follow-up computed tomography scans, as well as ionizing radiation and biopsy complications, searching for something that never would have caused symptoms.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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