All 5 Uses
analyze
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- I watched carefully, analyzing the angle at which he bent his knees to absorb the impact.†
Book 3analyzing = examining in detail to better understand
- I thought about every step before I took it, analyzing my mood, the burn in my throat, the position of the others around me.†
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- Looking at you that way, analyzing you as a target.†
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- I analyzed their expressions as Aro turned back to us.†
Book 3analyzed = examined in detail to better understand
- Edward went back to analyzing every shift of intention and control that had happened in the meadow today, declaring that it was my shield that had made the Volturi run away with their tails between their legs.†
Book 3analyzing = examining in detail to better understand
Definitions:
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(1)
(analyze) to examine and consider something in detail to better understand it
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, analyze may specifically mean to determine chemical components or to psychoanalyze. Very rarely, you may see the British spell analyzes as analyses--which Americans use as the plural spelling for analysis.