Sample Sentences for
analysis
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

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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    Malcolm was quite incorrect in his analysis.  (source)
    analysis = understanding based upon examination
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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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    The company does cost analyses on everything.†  (source)
    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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    Sending Teresa here and shutting everything down was only the last part, one more... final analysis.  (source)
    analysis = examination
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    As evidenced in attached tapes (OZK Series), it was impossible to elicit from Subject A information sought by Department i-R. Inducement of medication (Refer: Medical Unit Group) plus preknowledge interrogation failed to bring forth suspected knowledge of Subject A. Psychiatric reports (Refer: Psychiatric Profiles Plus Analyses) corroborate results of OZK series tapes.†  (source)
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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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    Westerberg's latter conjecture, as it turned out, was a fairly astute analysis of the relationship between Chris and Walt McCandless.  (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)
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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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    He's helped me to adjust myself to a certain extent, but an extensive analysis hasn't been necessary.  (source)
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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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    Gabriel recognized her; she was an analyst who worked at a pod near his.†  (source)
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    CNN had switched to a discussion between four commentators and analysts.†  (source)
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    Come on, we're not talking about psychoanalysis here.  (source)
    psychoanalysis = aka analysis -- psychiatric treatment
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    He'd sat in a sea of tan and navy sports jackets, wondering what his favorite psychoanalyst would say about so many people trying so desperately not to stand out.†  (source)
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    For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off limits.†  (source)
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    I could have put her into psychoanalytical therapy, had her cured.†  (source)
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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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    "He writes like someone, you know, possessed!" she said to me, then added, "It's very plain that he never was psychoanalyzed."†  (source)
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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)
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