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If they were not in conversation with their competitors, the bobsledders were dissecting their recent run.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

What was happening: Officials were dissecting the electronic timing machines, complete with underwater touch pads, used to record the swimmers’ times.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2021

His father made him bring home extra specimens from his biology classes: “When other people were tossing a ball in the back yard, my dad and I were dissecting frogs and grasshoppers.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2015

Born Lorna Tolchard, she met her future husband, John Wing, over a body they were dissecting when both were medical students.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2014

Priestley, Cavendish and Lavoisier were dissecting the impalpable air and making the gaseous form of substances as familiar and manageable as the solid.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various