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unpick
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Carefully analyse the different elements of (something), especially in order to find faults.
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‘Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past’
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‘It would take a lifetime to unpick all of the critical readings that he offers in Orientalism.’
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‘Judy Cox unpicks the United Nations report into Israeli army atrocities’
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‘The more cerebral cinemagoer, however, is left in a conundrum as he or she tries to unpick the film's slapdash symbolism and script.’
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‘Alice Miles in the Times has a stab at unpicking this.’
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‘This is void happiness, grey comfort missing love, where angels sit or lie, head in hands, where science kills the rainbow and unpicks the beauty of the Universe; it is ours for all time, ours to break and ours to kill.’
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‘We cannot expect a child to analyse branding promotions or to unpick nutritional messages from advertising.’
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‘The main sources are provided by extant accounts of papal ceremonial, particularly those relating to enthronement and funeral, and Paravicini-Bagliani unpicks their intriguing ritual detail to great effect.’
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‘Reading the Sangsters' book, which unpicks every last aspect of downshifting, the process itself appears to be as full of trials and tribulations as the daily grind of city life.’
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‘We have other good improvements in the bill relating to controls on sales to overseas people, which will go a long way to achieving a similar outcome, but it is very important that the underlying principle here be unpicked a little.’
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‘I've tried to unpick what the strange and fantastic phenomenon of Morrissey might represent psychologically, musically, sexually, and culturally.’
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‘You could try to unpick all the false assumptions in that last sentence, but frankly, its not worth it.’
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‘In the time I have here I will unpick each one of them.’
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‘Yes it is a mess, and the guidelines tried to unpick some of those issues.’
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‘A detailed analysis of The Prince would be needed in order to unpick the ambivalent feelings Machiavelli had towards Cesare.’
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‘I am sorry, you are going to have to really unpick this because you have wrapped up in one step what seemed to me to be about four.’
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‘Linda Woolley unpicks some of these strands, and holds them up to view.’
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‘Reinhart unpicks the Camp David negotiations which have been consistently held up by the Israeli government and the ‘international community’ as the prime example of the Palestinians refusing to compromise.’
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‘It's not exactly the toughest metaphor in the world to unpick.’
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‘Robinson has written her autobiography, Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother, which unpicks her marriage to Wilson, who has edited the Evening Times, the Sunday Standard, the Times, and The Sporting Life.’
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‘Carefully unpicking the myth that has grown up around these games, Dougan illuminates an horrific period in Ukrainian history without succumbing to sensation.’
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