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
All of the vampire costumes had a form of deconstruction.
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Essence, 1 May 2025
That year an honorary degree was conferred on Jacques Derrida, and when somebody described him as the exponent of deconstruction theory, Brown relates, Prince Philip was overheard muttering that his own family seemed to be deconstructing pretty well.
—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
And now the deconstruction dominated the proceedings, something many of us loved but which most audiences felt was just too much too fast.
—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
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Essence, 1 May 2025
That year an honorary degree was conferred on Jacques Derrida, and when somebody described him as the exponent of deconstruction theory, Brown relates, Prince Philip was overheard muttering that his own family seemed to be deconstructing pretty well.
—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
And now the deconstruction dominated the proceedings, something many of us loved but which most audiences felt was just too much too fast.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deconstruction
analysis
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In Gilbert’s hands, reappraising the decade from a feminist perspective is more an exercise in cataloguing than in analysis: the ideology of the era is not subtle, and its narratives don’t need decoding.—
Dayna Tortorici,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Yet a new 2025 UCLA analysis of 20,000 working adults finds that self-employment, especially for women, is linked to significantly lower rates of obesity, inactivity, and poor sleep, three of the biggest drivers of heart trouble.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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“Deconstruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deconstruction. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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