as in analysis
the separation and identification of the parts of a whole
a lengthy deconstruction of the president's speech by a panel of pundits
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Recent Examples of deconstruction
Michael Caine is superb as a humorous deconstruction of how much Holmes relies on rhetoric and confidence.
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
For a few weeks after each fitting, Spector’s New York office becomes an epicenter for deconstruction and DIY custom embellishment.
—Ingrid Schmidt, HollywoodReporter, 21 June 2025
Marclay’s deconstruction and reconstruction of time does not reduce to a coherent theory of the fourth dimension.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
The practice, called deconstruction, creates a circular economy of reuse for building materials.
—Rae Solomon, NPR, 13 June 2025
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
For a few weeks after each fitting, Spector’s New York office becomes an epicenter for deconstruction and DIY custom embellishment.
—Ingrid Schmidt, HollywoodReporter, 21 June 2025
Marclay’s deconstruction and reconstruction of time does not reduce to a coherent theory of the fourth dimension.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
The practice, called deconstruction, creates a circular economy of reuse for building materials.
—Rae Solomon, NPR, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deconstruction
analysis
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Financing for oil, gas, and coal projects from the top six US banks fell to $73 billion in the first seven months of the year, down 25% from the same period last year, according to a Bloomberg analysis.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Additional analysis showed that around 70 percent of these LRDs displayed evidence of gas swirling around 2 million miles per hour—solid indicators of accretion disks surrounding supermassive black holes.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Deconstruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deconstruction. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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