as in dissecting
to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships
analyze the park's ecosystem before deciding whether hunting should be allowed
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Recent Examples of analyzing
By analyzing nearly half a million nearby star systems, the team sought to understand how often planets survive when their host stars swell into red giants.
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
Related Stories Set to receive the Indie Star Award at Tauron American Film Festival, Philippe has become known for analyzing cinema history in his detailed docs.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
Entertainment as a Case Study When analyzing the state of the job market, entertainment is an interesting case study.
—Neel Somani, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
BestReviews spends thousands of hours researching, analyzing and testing products to recommend the best picks for most consumers.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
By combining visual and motor data, the AEKE K1 monitors your movements in real time—analyzing 42 skeletal points with sub-second responsiveness.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Our detectives are interviewing all individuals involved, and our crime scene investigators are meticulously collecting and analyzing all relevant evidence to understand the full scope of what occurred.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 6 Nov. 2025
Charles Modica, who leads the office of the IBA, said his staff would assist the council with analyzing any proposals for new city revenue.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025
The researchers found the pathogens — Salmonella enterica and Borrelia recurrentis, bacteria that cause paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever, respectively — by analyzing teeth from the fallen soldiers who were found in a mass grave uncovered in 2001 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
Related Stories Set to receive the Indie Star Award at Tauron American Film Festival, Philippe has become known for analyzing cinema history in his detailed docs.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
Entertainment as a Case Study When analyzing the state of the job market, entertainment is an interesting case study.
—Neel Somani, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
BestReviews spends thousands of hours researching, analyzing and testing products to recommend the best picks for most consumers.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
By combining visual and motor data, the AEKE K1 monitors your movements in real time—analyzing 42 skeletal points with sub-second responsiveness.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Our detectives are interviewing all individuals involved, and our crime scene investigators are meticulously collecting and analyzing all relevant evidence to understand the full scope of what occurred.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 6 Nov. 2025
Charles Modica, who leads the office of the IBA, said his staff would assist the council with analyzing any proposals for new city revenue.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025
The researchers found the pathogens — Salmonella enterica and Borrelia recurrentis, bacteria that cause paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever, respectively — by analyzing teeth from the fallen soldiers who were found in a mass grave uncovered in 2001 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for analyzing
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The technique starts with a minuscule sample of tissue; for example, in the makeshift lab at the hotel in Malles Venosta, researchers dissecting moths for sequencing also removed, for DNA barcoding, a leg of each moth whose species was not conclusively known.—
Glenn Zorpette,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Miami Herald spent more than two years dissecting the 2022 boat crash that killed 17-year-old Luciana ‘Lucy’ Fernandez and critically injured Katerina ‘Katy’ Puig.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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But Parente claims he has been blocked from fully examining the vehicle since it was returned.—
Omar Jimenez,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Blue Moon is the other side of the idiosyncratic-artist coin, examining not the airy start of something major but a man bereft of his best collaborator.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Peskov replied that the Kremlin was assessing whether preparations for nuclear tests were necessary rather than actually beginning them, Tass reported.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The plan will include assessing current facilities, analyzing future needs and presenting a detailed budget for future projects.—
Jim Drummond,
Oc Register,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Texas Attorney General’s antitrust division is investigating anticompetitive business practices in youth hockey, USA TODAY has learned.—
Kenny Jacoby,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Joe springs into action to help, but Zoë is skeptical, believing the explosion isn't worth investigating.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Nov. 2025
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After possibly allowing the opening touchdown to Browns tight end Harold Fannin, Spillane was everywhere; diagnosing run plays, discouraging throws and snagging an interception in the second half.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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And much evidence shows that increases in the diagnostic prevalence can be attributed to diagnosing milder cases that may have been missed previously.—
Carol Mathews,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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According to the affidavit, DCS case managers closed the three investigations without evaluating Kinsleigh.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
11 Nov. 2025
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Before the trials began in November of that year, American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley spent dozens of hours speaking with and evaluating the Nazi officials.—
NPR,
NPR,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Analyzing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/analyzing. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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