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For the first days since the beginning I can write three or four pages on my subject and then another page of breezy analysis in less than an hour.†
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analysis = the process or result of a detailed examination of something
And your analysis of the bombing, at least, was inventive.†
You have offered some useful facts and analysis but he requires material.†
It said, variously: You are surreptitious B+ student of life, first thing hummer of Wagner and Strauss, illegal alien, emotional alien, genre bug, Yellow peril, neo-American, great in bed, overrated poppa's boy, sentimentalist, anti-romantic, _ _ _ _ _ analyst (you fill in), stranger, follower, traitor, spy.†
He was a Filipino psychoanalyst, a Marcos sympathizer.†
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People drown, politically involved fat analysts included.†
They were hiring new analysts.†
I simply wrote textbook examples of our workaday narrative, veritable style sheets that Hoagland even used to remind the other analysts of how it ought to be done.†

Definitions:

(1) (analysis as in: analysis of relevant data)
the process or result of examining and thinking about something to better understand it
(2) (analysis as in: psychiatrist suggested analysis)
psychiatric treatment -- (using any of many theories of the human mind that use talk therapy to understand the unconscious mind)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)