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  • When you analyze it, there was little risk.   (source)
    analyze = examine and consider
  • He wants to analyze which advanced-placement classes the seniors took, their standardized test scores, extracurriculars, and GPAs to figure out what he needs to do to get into Harvard.   (source)
    analyze = examine in detail to better understand
  • You fill out a survey, a computer analyzes your answers, then it cross-references with the other surveys.   (source)
    analyzes = examines
  • Whatever it was, Vlad didn't want to analyze it too much.   (source)
    analyze = examine to better understand
  • They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot.   (source)
    analyzed = examined in detail to better understand
  • It never entered his head to analyze the details of the sick man's situation, to consider how that body was lying under the quilt, how those emaciated legs and thighs and spine were lying huddled up, and whether they could not be made more comfortable, whether anything could not be done to make things, if not better, at least less bad.   (source)
    analyze = examine
  • I feel a sort of shiver run through me and there's no time to analyze why, because they're ready for us.†   (source)
  • After the target particles have been smashed, they analyze the results to try to find information reflecting the deep structure of matter.†   (source)
  • It's an attack that has had zero days to be analyzed yet.†   (source)
  • "I don't know," says Gita, not in the mood to analyze.†   (source)
  • They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.†   (source)
  • They put most of them to sleep and then applied stethoscopes to hearts, examined urine and feces as if horoscopes, drew blood in syringes and analyzed it, fondled humps and bumps, tapped teeth, blinded eyes with flashlights, pinched skins, stroked and pulled hairs.†   (source)
  • French kings throughout the Renaissance were so convinced that anagrams held magic power that they appointed royal anagrammatists to help them make better decisions by analyzing words in important documents.†   (source)
  • Mr. Mertins has got some kind of doctorate in seating arrangements or something, because he analyzed and scrutinized and practically baptized the seats we had to sit in.†   (source)
  • I've seen dozens of doctors in my life, who all try to analyze me and figure me out.†   (source)
  • Of course they do, but there's still stuff they need to talk about and discuss and analyze and all that klunk.†   (source)
  • He decided he couldn't analyze it yet.†   (source)
  • Then, a quick EVA to a rover, where we keep the atmospheric analyzers.†   (source)
  • He's the guy who analyzed the clothing worn by President Kennedy and Governor Connally for the congressional committee that reexamined the Kennedy assassination.†   (source)
  • And to analyze the results of those tests, doctor?†   (source)
  • More stars than I ever remember seeing, and I've spent a lot of time at night with my head tilted back analyzing the constellations.†   (source)
  • No. In the interest of education and safety, everything they've done will be recorded, tracked, logged, analyzed—it's permanent.†   (source)
  • They've taken my measurements, analyzed my blood and metabolic rates.†   (source)
  • They totally overheard and told me that I had to go home while they analyzed Lilly about her need to taunt her sex-crazed stalker.†   (source)
  • The town of Sterling would analyze to death what she had done to her son-but what about what she would do for him?†   (source)
  • I MADE AN APPOINTMENT, TO HAVE MY VOICE 'ANALYZED'; WHEN THE GUY HEARD MY VOICE—OVER.†   (source)
  • I don't want you analyzing it either, okay?†   (source)
  • I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices, analyzed and interviewed, talked about just out of earshot, nodding when spoken to, repeating myself, the object of a thousand pitying glances and knitted brows.†   (source)
  • He analyzed my character, and he insisted on knowing what I disliked most about him ("You're too conventional," I said).†   (source)
  • Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.†   (source)
  • After all, Commander Jameson had given me only a few minutes to analyze Metias's body, and I'd used the time poorly—but how could I have concentrated?†   (source)
  • Landscape gardening was no more than a bohemian fantasy, as well as a lame ambition—so he had analyzed it with the help of Freud—to replace or surpass his absent father.†   (source)
  • Before doing that she wanted to analyze the possible solutions to the problem of her pregnancy carefully and come to some decision.†   (source)
  • He did not dream of the girl whose remains had been removed and were now being analyzed but of Lindsey Salmon, of the 5!†   (source)
  • He picked his hat off the desk and analyzed it while he spoke, his fingers tracing the herringbone pattern.†   (source)
  • This brain he used to interpret, analyze, sense, and remember the world, it was his brain, wired by thousands of years of evolution.†   (source)
  • Further circuits amused themselves by analyzing the molecular components of the door, and of the humanoids' brain cells.†   (source)
  • If you put it in your ear, Montag, I can sit comfortably home, warming my frightened bones, and hear and analyze the firemen's world, find its weaknesses, without danger.†   (source)
  • If you analyze the discussions, you realize she's not the subject, but the guilty party!†   (source)
  • When Wolf had dieticians analyze the typical Rosetan's eating habits, they found that a whopping 41 percent of their calories came from fat.†   (source)
  • The academic assessors will analyze my strengths and weaknesses, and then assign me to a school and a major.†   (source)
  • Every morning his voice boomed in through my windows as he analyzed their dates; things seemed to be going very well.†   (source)
  • It was not until his adventures had been exhaustively analyzed that the bald man began to withdraw from Eragon's mind.†   (source)
  • "I know a place where we can get it analyzed," I said.†   (source)
  • This is why we need you to analyze the situation," Zeke says.†   (source)
  • Somebody analyzing the situation.†   (source)
  • Jessica's analyzing everything I do — she'll break it down for you later.†   (source)
  • At the end of the day, I prefer to like the works I analyze.†   (source)
  • How many not-quite-four-year-olds analyze the family financial woes and demand payment for a creditor?†   (source)
  • Which felt kind of liberating, even if I had to analyze Jem and Scout's relationship for fifty minutes without having read the chapter.†   (source)
  • For twenty minutes we tried to analyze that note.†   (source)
  • The Army analyzed the terrorist groups in the city and decided there were three different categories: hard-core Islamist fanatics, associated with alQaeda and similar groups; locals who were a little less fanatic though they still wanted to kill Americans; and opportunistic criminal gangs who were basically trying to make a living off the chaos.†   (source)
  • This would provide him with a critical method by which to analyze our ideas, and thus enable him to tidy up our thoughts and notions.†   (source)
  • "They were analyzed before being grown in my laboratory," Gartler responded.†   (source)
  • Ivanov had never worked with a computerized blood analyzer, and it took several seconds for him to orient himself.†   (source)
  • I borrowed one of the dancer's keys for our studio and locked myself in for two whole days, practicing each movement and analyzing them in absolute detail—the angle of my leap, the timing, weight distribution, speed—everything.†   (source)
  • He wanted that tablet, too-not to analyze but to keep to himself, so no one could use it against him.†   (source)
  • I've spent hours trying to analyze the situation, and the closest I've been able to come to a theory is that his father set a bad example at an age when John was impressionable.†   (source)
  • They shared the same books, but when it came time to analyze what they had read, their opinions were different.†   (source)
  • I didn't stop to analyze what was happening.†   (source)
  • It's weird, but I already feel the tension leaving me and soon I will only be left with the memory of this night to think about and analyze, rethink, and come to a conclusion about what to do.†   (source)
  • The actor, still masquerading as a Confederate soldier, commented on his own crime and analyzed for the Garretts the motives of Lincoln's killer!†   (source)
  • Had he no right to criticize ...or analyze?†   (source)
  • She spent sleepless nights analyzing details and phrases in the anonymous letters in the hope of finding some shred of comfort.†   (source)
  • I thought the doctor might have pumped somebody's stomach and then analyzed what he found in his hotel laboratory.†   (source)
  • You are each partnered with another hiker according to ability assessed by analyzing the data I collected from your earlier hikes.†   (source)
  • SNOOPER, POISON: radiation analyzer within the olfactory spectrum and keyed to detect poisonous substances.†   (source)
  • Later, when it was all over, after they had analyzed it and all, they decided to kick Lencho out of the Berets.†   (source)
  • And naturally, I spent the last year trying to analyze what it was about us, about me, that didn't work.†   (source)
  • I think you're overanalyzing this.†   (source)
  • I would take a tablet from the bottle and have it analyzed by someone in the chemistry department at the college.†   (source)
  • Then it had worried her that she should feel this and ever since she'd busily avoided analyzing further.†   (source)
  • I Meant to analyze Chase's limits that very weekend, to learn just how far I could stretch him at the edges, to judge how wide I might warp his self-imposed morality.†   (source)
  • Grainger can often tell, by analyzing the flavor formula of a product, which of his counterparts at a rival firm devised it.†   (source)
  • But Adam wasn't "going soft"; he was analyzing the problem—and Paul was a big problem.†   (source)
  • Johnson wasn't sure he wanted to take the time to analyze this boy's blood serum, if, in all probability, nothing would be found in it.†   (source)
  • I'm not ready to analyze my feelings right now, especially since Colin is downstairs waiting for me.†   (source)
  • I'd be enjoying a quiet moment at my kiosk right now, without being analyzed,' she said.†   (source)
  • Inmates pass time discussing the board's five members, analyzing their tics and prejudices to make informed predictions about what might happen in these tiny hearing rooms.†   (source)
  • I gathered a great many for her, and she taught me to analyze them—like you were speaking of—but I never did love to do that.†   (source)
  • He swallowed and waited for her to say something, but she wouldn't; her skill, her fantastic mechanical power flooded back into her, analyzing the situation and reporting to her that all she had to do was keep quiet.†   (source)
  • He looked at everything closely, studying it, analyzing in what way it could be turned to his advantage.†   (source)
  • I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.†   (source)
  • Just the other day, it seemed, the typical pih-er had been a volunteer who took on chores such as finding Paul's lost luggage, then went back to analyzing epidemiological data.†   (source)
  • Roland G. Fryer Jr., the young black economist who analyzed the "acting white" phenomenon and the black-white test score gap, may be among the next.†   (source)
  • THE BRANCH OF MATHEMATICS THAT USES POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE NUMBERS, LETTERS, AND OTHER SYSTEMIZED SYMBOLS TO EXPRESS AND ANALYZE TIIE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONCEPTS AND QUANTITY IN TERMS OF FORMULAS, EQUATIONS, ETC.: GENERALIZED MATHEMATICS.†   (source)
  • "Have you ever had this analyzed?" she called out.†   (source)
  • The recommendations listed below are pretty generic—they'll be more meaningful once the Course has more of your performances to analyze.†   (source)
  • I formulated my thoughts into logical statements, analyzing, planning more strategically than ever before.†   (source)
  • Expert witnesses on TV analyzed his motives, his past, his possible future murders.†   (source)
  • First, he will study the demographics of the county and analyze this in light of the case to compose the model juror.†   (source)
  • I regarded the "mystery" of creativity as a shield erected by artists to avoid articulating, analyzing, or even knowing the details of their creative process—for fear it would fade away.†   (source)
  • She wanted to see the dead's family and friends gathered together, to observe, and analyze, and judge.†   (source)
  • Ultimately they would return to the much larger labs and production facilities of the Alps, of course, but only when they had what they needed firmly secured and the environment it came from thoroughly analyzed.†   (source)
  • In it, he was typically thoughtful and compassionate as he analyzed his father's tortured life.†   (source)
  • Anger Mrs. Collins would love to analyze.†   (source)
  • It stinks, if you analyze it.†   (source)
  • Levy analyzed the speech of children aged ten and eleven in an outer-London school and found many different uses of like.†   (source)
  • And to give a fuller description of what this is I want now to turn his analytic approach back upon itself...to analyze analysis itself.†   (source)
  • But the committee analyzed the appeal and —†   (source)
  • He rapped on the door, his mind racing, facts analyzed, absorbed and discarded as rapidly as they came to him, a strategy evolving.†   (source)
  • It was nearly midnight and Forsyth's body longed for sleep, but his mind raced, analyzing events and recounting the day.†   (source)
  • I accumulated detailed maps and systematically analyzed the terrain of different regions of the country.†   (source)
  • Wanted to ask, decided not to—wanted him to put all his savvy into analyzing that ship, not distract him with questions.†   (source)
  • I could do all lands of tricks; I could memorize, analyze, and argue until my opponents were paralyzed, but whenever I did these things I felt shame.†   (source)
  • Whenever I felt backed in a corner, words of intense anger and hatred seemed to erupt before I could analyze what I was saying or why.†   (source)
  • They analyzed everything—from the way Luis unloaded the robot from the crate to the match itself—and asked the kids what had gone well and what needed to be done better.†   (source)
  • Private First Class Paul Berlin had not analyzed that statement, but he knew it was both true and dangerous.†   (source)
  • I guess he was tired of hearing Jalil analyze things.†   (source)
  • Stop overanalyzing it.†   (source)
  • Would you like to analyze a situation for me?†   (source)
  • The Indiana State University professor used an atomic absorption spectrophotometer to analyze strands of Baker's hair.†   (source)
  • I analyze my own experiences for answers.†   (source)
  • Theresa analyzed the relative merits of action versus inaction until her choice seemed not so much between paths, as between going blindly left or right in a featureless wood.†   (source)
  • Up to this point, we have rigorously analyzed the convention's work as if it had the authority to establish a Constitution for the United States.†   (source)
  • The next chapter will analyze the soldiers' perceptions of the slavery issue.†   (source)
  • Later, after analyzing all available video images, they concluded that the accomplice was in fact a woman.†   (source)
  • I did not have time to analyze the meaning of the Bear's visit or the significance of the symbolic removing of his ring as proof of his word.†   (source)
  • Don't try and analyze it," he said.†   (source)
  • For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love, and it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it.†   (source)
  • Coldly analyzing it, he knew his own fear had forced him to fall.†   (source)
  • Because of the importance attached to scatology in Ottawa, I had been ordered to devote part of my time to collecting and analyzing wolf scats.†   (source)
  • Though I understood and could analyze what was happening, I could not break through.†   (source)
  • 12TH JUROR: Well, if you analyze the figures ....10TH JUROR: What figures?†   (source)
  • The fear, the uncertainty, the things that feed hate would have been analyzed, digested, turned to something more useful.†   (source)
  • He felt—(he squinted in the darkness, analyzing)—a certain panic, for though the road was isolated, some lovers might come along, or some fool who'd taken the wrong turn, looking for Niagara Falls.†   (source)
  • At dinner in the house he no longer analyzed or explained events; he no longer tried to make the pieces fit together.†   (source)
  • It was true that some scientists, after analyzing the record of his only speech, had suggested that the voice was that of a machine.†   (source)
  • Was it something that could be named and analyzed?†   (source)
  • Douglas has recently written, "no matter how finely the lawyers analyzed it, the crime for which the Nazis were tried had never been formalized as a crime with the definiteness required by our legal standards, nor outlawed with a death penalty by the international community.†   (source)
  • She surveyed what crops were grown, what animals there were, and analyzed without difficulty the causes of their poverty.†   (source)
  • I really don't know what sort of girl she is; I can't analyze her at all.   (source)
    analyze = examine and consider
  • Martin perceived that Wickett's snarls were partly a Clif Clawson misconception of humor, but partly a resentment, as great as Gottlieb's, of the morphological scientists who ticket things with the nicest little tickets, who name things and rename them and never analyze them.   (source)
    analyze = examine
  • He tried to analyze his unpopularity.   (source)
  • Had Nicholas been able to analyze his feelings he would have found that his steady, tender, and proud love of his wife rested on his feeling of wonder at her spirituality and at the lofty moral world, almost beyond his reach, in which she had her being.   (source)
  • But the man who says that the movement of the wheels is the cause refutes himself, for having once begun to analyze he ought to go on and explain further why the wheels go round; and till he has reached the ultimate cause of the movement of the locomotive in the pressure of steam in the boiler, he has no right to stop in his search for the cause.   (source)
  • McClennan had analyzed the will prepared by Lewis McGwyre.†   (source)
  • I said He didn't have time to go around analyzing everybody.†   (source)
  • The data had piled up and was still being analyzed at Pankey's home office in Cleveland.†   (source)
  • One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.†   (source)
  • My cheeks grow warmer—he is analyzing my brain like he would analyze a computer or a machine.†   (source)
  • It's collated this information and analyzed it for relevance.†   (source)
  • They were tracked and tested, measured and analyzed.†   (source)
  • She analyzed Pearl's face, trying to judge her reaction, but could only pinpoint confusion.†   (source)
  • Katherine quickly analyzed Dürer's square, adding up the numbers in several rows and columns.†   (source)
  • He reminded me of the Elliotts, in a way—examining and analyzing at all times.†   (source)
  • But my head was spinning, trying to analyze every word Edward had spoken today.†   (source)
  • I analyzed their expressions as Aro turned back to us.†   (source)
  • Supposedly we're really smart and they're studying every move we make, analyzing us.†   (source)
  • Moscovitz were totally trying to analyze me.†   (source)
  • The regulator analyzes the air with spectroscopy, then separates the gasses by supercooling them.†   (source)
  • But Jack knew how to analyze reports from such men and data from technical sources.†   (source)
  • I have no idea what she's thinking, but she seems to be analyzing me, attempting to read my face.†   (source)
  • I loved Giselle, and by now we didn't have to analyze its political content.†   (source)
  • Ekman and Friesen began to analyze the film for clues.†   (source)
  • If you analyze the data you can find general patterns of behavioral consistency from test to test.†   (source)
  • They'd gone as far as they could in analyzing reactions and brain patterns.†   (source)
  • It's worth some attention, and we should systematically analyze the matter in depth.†   (source)
  • They aren't looking at each other, just analyzing the screens.†   (source)
  • But if you wish, I will send it to be analyzed.†   (source)
  • This brain is bollixed up about reality and I can't analyze it.†   (source)
  • The entire rest of the day I'm extremely quiet as I attempt to analyze his actions.†   (source)
  • Introspection requires you to think and analyze.†   (source)
  • No, why don't you use Hume's method and analyze what you perceive as your 'ego.'†   (source)
  • Langdon stood in the dim light of his study and analyzed the fax in his hand.†   (source)
  • Vee returned the duh look "Because the cops already analyzed everything.†   (source)
  • So they analyze languages, looking for such traits.†   (source)
  • She seems to take in and analyze my every word.†   (source)
  • I angle my head in his direction, trying not to analyze the way that sentence came out.†   (source)
  • All of this is meant to happen and we're being analyzed all over again.†   (source)
  • Breckin doesn't even try to analyze it anymore so I pretend not to, either.†   (source)
  • My brain is too tired to even analyze his comment.†   (source)
  • So I guess they're analyzing it or something.†   (source)
  • My cheeks grow warmer—he is analyzing my brain like he would analyze a computer or a machine.†   (source)
  • I want this contact analyzed, not interpreted.†   (source)
  • They've been analyzing it the wrong way!†   (source)
  • I'm supposed to be analyzing the crime scene ...but I can't concentrate.†   (source)
  • We analyzed her pursuit of filthy material values.†   (source)
  • Looking at you that way, analyzing you as a target.†   (source)
  • So we have to analyze the dream before we can understand it.†   (source)
  • There are lots of books that tackle broad themes, that analyze the world from great remove.†   (source)
  • Instead of taking tests or analyzing the stock market, the two now sat in silence.†   (source)
  • Wang began to analyze the mathematical pattern in the numbers.†   (source)
  • He's sitting down with his computer and painstakingly analyzing videotapes, second by second.†   (source)
  • In other words, they can tell that she is analyzing the situation, trying to figure them out.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure why I'm even analyzing why it came out like a question.†   (source)
  • This was something Hegel had also analyzed.†   (source)
  • Whatever this is, I don't want to analyze it.†   (source)
  • I watched carefully, analyzing the angle at which he bent his knees to absorb the impact.†   (source)
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