dissection

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Recent Examples of dissection Family-friendly Offerings Ritz Kids activities focus on nature, exploration, and culture with activities for various ages, including arts and crafts, squid dissection, and educational experiences. Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025 Mussolini is at once an incisive psychological portrait of one of the 20th century’s most destructive individuals and a clear-eyed dissection of fascism’s politically expedient, intellectually incoherent origins. Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025 After having already staved off throat cancer a decade prior, Dimon experienced an acute aortic dissection, or a tear in the inner layer of the body’s main artery, and had to rush to the hospital. Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025 Bogdan, who researches bee visual processing and bee intelligence, anesthetizes bees before dissection as a matter of protocol, though he is not required to by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dissection
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Noun
  • Our proprietary technology combines geospatial analysis, artificial intelligence, and data science to identify rural properties with high potential both for environmental preservation and for deforestation risk.
    Tarciana Medeiros, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The global shipping industry is responsible for around 3% of global planet-heating pollution annually, a figure that could rise to 17% by 2050 if no action is taken, according to a 2018 European Parliament analysis.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In 2017, Davidson undertook a two-year examination of the college’s ties to slavery and racist policies by the college’s Commission on Race and Slavery.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Sure enough, on closer examination, it was confirmed that the mirror was made from Webster Sterling silver and, based on online listings and previous auction prices, is potentially worth anywhere between $75 and $200.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • He has not been seen in public since March, but the investigation of his activities had not previously been disclosed by Chinese authorities.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Related Stories Ofcom’s investigation found that the documentary’s failure to disclose that the 13-year-old narrator’s father held a position in the Hamas-run administration constituted a material breach of rules requiring factual programs to provide audiences with accurate information.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025

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