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How to use the word dissect in a Sentence?

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We’re not doing anything at the arraignment because that would be showmanship and nothing more because we haven’t even seen the indictment yet. We will take the indictment, we will dissect it, the team will look at every – every – potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge it.

Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We'll teach kids how to dissect a squid. We'll take kids on nature hikes. They'll learn how to build shelters. They'll learn how to identify different trees and plants, it's really about teaching kids about the love of nature. The point of outdoor education is to help people grow. It's certainly not to traumatize anybody. … That's not why we're in business.

Superintendent Andrew Pulver

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One time, someone left two Happy Meals for the girls on the porch. Some were compelled to make contact with Chris Watts. It was incredibly disturbing. And there has been so much speculation in the YouTube community. They even call it ‘ Watts Island, ’ where they have these ongoing speculations about the case and dissect every portion of it. I felt very sad when Shanann’s dad had to fly all the way to Colorado just to tell people to stop harassing Chris Watts after having gone through so much. There was just a lot of negative energy.

Shanann Watts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You have to win, we can’t really dissect it too much. It’s too late in the season for that. The pressure is on now. We’ve got to win every game from here on out, or at least that’s the attitude.

Matt Chapman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The end results speak for themselves.We are currently focused on [Thompson’s current] trial and do not have time to dissect these police reports from 10-18 years ago. it's a shame that there's no concern about due process.

Jordan Kushner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some of the small deals are dictated by legal documents, there are clauses in there that can trip you up, and you have to be aware of at least what it means. You may not be able to sort of dissect the nuances, but you have to understand what the impact is because brands are savvy enough to stick that stuff in there.

Michael Rueda

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have real problems with that guy, he's a smart guy who's talking about things that I believe he doesn't have any real insight or knowledge or experience in. He keeps talking about things that when you dissect it out and parse it out, it doesn't make any sense.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When there's time to look back upon the situation and we dissect the response, I think the big deficiency is going to be the fact that we were not prepared for testing.

David Shulkin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Do not dissect a rainbow. In other words, do not destroy a beautiful phenomenon by overanalyzing it.

Denise LaFrance

added by Cosmetize
4 years ago

All Malaysians should study and dissect the most astonishing interview given by Najib on the 1MDB scandal with Reuters, i do not believe that Najib is so stupid, incompetent or ignorant, which only means he was lying through his teeth in his interview with Reuters.

Lim Kit Siang

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Mind is like an archaeologist, it can only dissect and research dead things, events on how, when, where & why. It can never be in the NOW. Only BEING is capable to be in the NOW and EXPERIENCE!

Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
7 years ago

The fashion in which the nameless UNMHSC employee custom orders baby's brains from Boyd's abortion clinic is shocking and disgusting-- but worse, the UNMHSC employee order babies' brains to dissect with summer camp students, which is admitted by UNM HSC chief administrator in the video obtained by New Mexico Alliance for Life.

Elisa Martinez

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

At KKR, we devote a great deal of time, attention and creativity trying to dissect, understand and anticipate change with the goal of achieving consistently strong returns for our investors.

Henry Kravis

added by mollyoconnor
8 years ago

Ask anyone in the Capitol - Republican, Democrat, or otherwise -- about Michael Steel, and they will tell you the same thing: he is a pro's pro, for more than seven years, I have relied on his ability to dissect an issue, win a debate, and deal openly and honestly with the press.

John Boehner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Paul Valery

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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