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The trained teacher, 47, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, said she had dissected every inch to recreate it.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2022

What Bo Burnham calls “that funny feeling,” Wally and André had dissected 40 years earlier.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2021

In late August, Grow returned to visit Richard and Angie Saunders to tell them what Reuters had learned: Restore Life had dissected their son’s body and sold part of his spine.

From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2017

But neither of them had dissected a mammal larger than a rat.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

Dan Dalgard, for example, was a prime candidate for coming down with Marburg, because he had dissected that monkey.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston