Verb (used with object) : to dissect an idea.    From Dictionary.com. 

On Sunday, Griese again dissected the Chiefs (3-5), who have allowed 24 or more points in six of their eight games this season.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

I'm rather flummoxed by the scientific terms dissected by the learned doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference

Canarias, or GTC, allowed the spectrum to be "dissected" precisely.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

"viewed in their entirety, and not 'dissected' into components.".    From Wordnik.com.  [TechCrunch] Reference

His eyes were fixed on each new blade he dissected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Grass] Reference

A dissected plane fuselage rests at the center of the map.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Writers play Modern Warfare] Reference

I dissected a lot of my own things, and a hit is a hit is a hit.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It?'] Reference

Gibbs's remarks were quickly taken up and dissected on liberal blogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought to be drug tested'] Reference

We didn't know what to expect when we dissected this building of yours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference

Take a much dissected June 1995 meeting between Netscape and Microsoft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storming Gates] Reference

We picked his five oddest collaborations and dissected his Twitter persona.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coda: Katy Perry's forgettable "Dream"; Kanye's strangest collaborations; 9:30 Club launches label] Reference

D.C. actors dissected his performance and ruled it was just that -- a performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashback: How we knew it was all an act for Joaquin Phoenix] Reference

We've dissected the signs the writers are carrying, but what about a protest song?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jill Sobule Writes the Wrongs] Reference

Set five such plants in moist sand and also five germinating seeds not so dissected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

To find out for sure, you had to die and have your brain dissected by a pathologist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disappearing Mind] Reference

By the time I called her, Velma Hart was surprised at how her words had been dissected and analyzed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like most of us, Velma Hart just wanted a little reassurance at Obama's town hall] Reference

You've already dissected "Inception" at least seven times and viewed numerous related mash-ups on YouTube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer time waster: Stumping the Akinator] Reference

Speculation of an arrest buzzed through London last week after Dr. Gunther von Hagens dissected a body on TV.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Becomes Him] Reference

Before us, pinioned Bacchus gleamed saffron and pearly, and we dissected away at him in grim, precise unison.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference

Test scores are up, and Maryland gets high marks in education surveys (we dissected those in a story recently).    From Wordnik.com.  [First Click, Maryland:With RGA money, is Md. gov's race going national?] Reference

Instead, they dissected and sliced us into various minority packages, each with a presumed bundle of grievances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Mcveigh Failed] Reference

London: Macmillan & Co. Here is a book that was never meant to be dissected and analyzed by critics and reviewers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

For an hour, we scarfed slices like college kids and irreverently dissected the talk with the maximum Soviet leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kay We Loved] Reference

In doing this the entire body is dissected away through the mouth and the legs are detached and skinned the same way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference

McCurry had to trudge back to the Oval Office to report that his remark was being dissected with "Talmudic precision.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton And The Intern] Reference

Scirrhous cords or fibrous tumors should be dissected out and removed before they have become large and begun breaking down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The late French president Francois Mitterrand is everywhere these days: dissected in magazines, books, movies -- even in court.    From Wordnik.com.  [FRANCE: THE LAST OF HIS KIND?] Reference

His manner of speaking, his snafus, his inadequacies are dissected to the point of something like actual deconstruction of the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dole's Problem] Reference

Like teenagers everywhere, they giggle about boys, the Web page they're designing and the pig Serena recently dissected in biology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venus And Serena Against The World] Reference

When life is dissected too much that the mystery is cut away and the original form is corrupted, there is a danger of interference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory] Reference

Obama seems to have little margin for error, as her every move is dissected and scrutinized by fans and, especially, political foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats call on Michelle Obama to hit the campaign trail] Reference

We chose them because they're a model that makes the process of evolution something that can be dissected and taken apart in the lab.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fishy Take On Human Skin Tones] Reference

The media have dissected Jones's charges against Clinton and speculated about what Monica Lewinsky might say if she ever takes the stand.    From Wordnik.com.  ['What Do You Do? Tell His Boss?'] Reference