Sample sentences for ANALYSIS - verbalworkout.com

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1 —as in:
analysis of relevant data

Definition

the process or result of examining and thinking about something to better understand it

analysis = detailed examination

Other Uses (with this meaning)

analysis = detailed examination

Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

analysis = detailed examination

Westerberg's latter conjecture, as it turned out, was a fairly astute analysis of the relationship between Chris and Walt McCandless.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

analysis = understanding based upon examination

The qualitative analysis give a quite normal condition, and shows, I should infer, in itself a vigorous state of health.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

analysis = detailed examination

Whatever the answer, Liesel didn't attempt any further analysis.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

analysis = attempt to figure something out

My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and application were intense; by the union of these qualities I conceived the idea and executed the creation of a man.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

analysis = examining and thinking about something to better understand it

I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs?
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

analysis = detailed examination

I have included in my report all of my formulas, as well as mathematical analyses of the data in the appendix.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

analyses = detailed examinations

(editor's note: This is the plural of analysis.)

Well, I stand by my pre-Van Houten analysis of the Dutch Tulip Man.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

analysis = understanding based upon examination

2 —as in:
psychiatrist suggested analysis

Definition

psychiatric treatment — (using any of many theories of the human mind that use talk therapy to understand the unconscious mind)

analysis = psychiatric treatment

Other Uses (with this meaning)

analyst = psychiatrist

psychoanalysis = psychiatric treatment; or a theory of psychiatric treatment

analysis = psychiatric treatment

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.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

psychoanalysis = applied psychiatric theory

Jason bent over the analyst, who was moving both arms, his right hand stretched out, trying desperately to reach something.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
'I believe this is something you lost,' said the analyst, angling his crutches and settling down in the chair with difficulty.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
'What do you think those men are here for?' asked the analyst.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Analyst, you'll get us killed!
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Moscow's sending Ogilvie back with a team of financial analysts, and with our own people they'll start the process of dismantling.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

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