as in analyses
a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event)
on Monday mornings she usually gives her coworkers a detailed play-by-play on how her weekend date went
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One of the study's authors, Daniel Byman, acknowledged in an interview with NPR last year that other analyses might use different, and legitimate, coding criteria to arrive at other conclusions.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
12 May 2026 -
Early analyses have begun to link genes to traits such as drought tolerance and temperature adaptation, but researchers say more rigorous work is needed to confirm those links before they can be used to guide restoration.—
Annika Hammerschlag,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Church’s landscapes from those traumatic years functioned as commentaries on the conflict’s course.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Pau’s videos, operating both as personal diaries and layered social commentaries, reflect a territorial condition mired in uncertainty.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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And the observations, questions, and assertions in our articles are varying degrees of surprising, insightful, and amusing.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
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Sharper than Hubble Researchers compared the new data with earlier observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
12 May 2026
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“Play-by-plays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/play-by-plays. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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