as in analysis
the separation and identification of the parts of a whole
a lengthy deconstruction of the president's speech by a panel of pundits
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Recent Examples of deconstruction
And now the deconstruction dominated the proceedings, something many of us loved but which most audiences felt was just too much too fast.
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Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
But this is actually a major deconstruction of the genre.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
The work is in many ways a deconstruction and then remaking of all these films.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 24 Mar. 2025
There is deconstruction of the heraldic myth without the author falling prey to easy platitudes, and without the kind of too-easy subversion that risks shattering the myth entirely.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
But this is actually a major deconstruction of the genre.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
The work is in many ways a deconstruction and then remaking of all these films.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 24 Mar. 2025
There is deconstruction of the heraldic myth without the author falling prey to easy platitudes, and without the kind of too-easy subversion that risks shattering the myth entirely.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deconstruction
analysis
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Disclosure: Steve McDowell is an industry analyst, and NAND Research is an industry analyst firm, that engages in, or has engaged in, research, analysis and advisory services with many technology companies, including VAST Data, Dell Technologies, IBM, WEKA.—
Steve McDowell,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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More than two-thirds of nearly 300 U.S. counties with the biggest growth in Medicaid and CHIP since 2008 backed Trump in the last election, according to a KFF Health News analysis of voting results and enrollment data from Georgetown.—
Noam Levey,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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“Deconstruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deconstruction. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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