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analysis
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analysis as in:  analysis of relevant data

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According to my analysis, we should focus on improving customer service.
analysis = detailed examination
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    The police are waiting for an analysis of the DNA.
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    Whatever the answer, Liesel didn't attempt any further analysis.  (source)
    analysis = detailed thinking to better understand
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    Well, I stand by my pre-Van Houten analysis of the Dutch Tulip Man.  (source)
    analysis = understanding based upon examination
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    Malcolm was quite incorrect in his analysis.  (source)
    analysis = understanding based upon examination
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    I was standing in the waiting room, reading the endless analyses of what had happened, surrounded by reporters.†  (source)
    analyses = instances or results of detailed examinations
    editor's notes: This is the plural of analysis.
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    And you were the greatest news analyst who ever lived.  (source)
    analyst = someone who examines things to better understand them
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    CIA data analysts have far more pressing things to look for than a band of refugee Unwinds.  (source)
    analysts = specialists
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    I pulled up some image-analysis software and made a high-resolution scan of both sides of the wrapper.  (source)
    analysis = examination
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    The company does cost analyses on everything.†  (source)
    analyses = instances or results of detailed examinations
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    Just a technical person: the computer system analyst.  (source)
    analyst = person who examines things to better understand them (in this case, examines computer systems)
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    Across the hall in the Federal Communications Commission station, one of her colleagues was listening to Japanese radio and typing up broadcasts for review by propaganda analysts.  (source)
    analysts = specialists
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    As soon as he completed his thesis, "An Analysis of Conical Helices", he transferred to Hughes's big California operation, where the real action was, eager to make his mark in the race for space.  (source)
    Analysis = examination
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    In here /perform the analyses, you answer the questions.†  (source)
    analyses = instances or results of detailed examinations
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analysis as in:  psychiatrist suggested analysis

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    Freud's theory of analysis emphasized dreams and sexual repression.
    analysis = psychiatric treatment
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    Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.  (source)
    psychoanalysis = applied psychiatric theory
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    Come on, we're not talking about psychoanalysis here.  (source)
    psychoanalysis = aka analysis -- psychiatric treatment
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    "The loss of even one of these pieces is impossible to quantify," said Murray Twitchell, a London-based insurance-risk analyst.†  (source)
    analyst = psychiatrist
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    CNN had switched to a discussion between four commentators and analysts.†  (source)
    analysts = psychiatrists
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    But as I mentioned, from the 1920s, Freud's psychoanalysis had a more direct influence on art and literature.  (source)
    psychoanalysis = theory of psychiatric treatment
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    At various talks in his final year Robbie had heard a psychoanalyst, a Communist trade union official and a physicist each declare for his own field as passionately, as convincingly, as Leavis had for his own.†  (source)
    psychoanalyst = aka analysist -- psychiatrist
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    It sort of sucks when your best friend's parents are psychoanalysts.†  (source)
    psychoanalysts = aka analysists -- psychiatrists
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    The late great Canadian critic Northrop Frye took the notion of archetypes from C. G. Jung's psychoanalytical writings and showed that whatever Jung can tell us about our heads, he can tell us a great deal more about our books.  (source)
    psychoanalytical = relating to a theory of psychiatry
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    I'm not asking you to psychoanalyze yourself.  (source)
    psychoanalyze = analyze based upon a theory of psychiatry
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    Heylmun and Civille have done the same thing—only they haven't psychoanalyzed their feelings; they've psychoanalyzed their feelings for mayonnaise and Oreo cookies.†  (source)
    psychoanalyzed = aka analyzed -- analyzed based upon a theory of psychiatry
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    Carla had decided to major in psych and had been giving all of us frequent free analysis.  (source)
    analysis = psychiatric treatment
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    The history relating to extreme violence, whether fantasied, observed in reality, or actually experienced by the child, fits in with the psychoanalytic hypothesis that the child's exposure to overwhelming stimuli, before he can master them, is closely linked to early defects in ego formation and later severe disturbances in impulse control.†  (source)
    psychoanalytic = aka analytic -- relating to a theory of psychiatry
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