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"To review or analyse in great detail"
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To review or analyse in great detail"
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"To review or analyse in great detail",
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To review or analyse in great detail",
"(idiomatic, transitive) To criticise (especially small details)."
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"text": "The quarterback picked apart the secondary defense in the first half."
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"ref": "2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.",
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"To overcome by skilled execution."
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"(idiomatic, transitive, sports) To overcome by skilled execution."
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To review or analyse in great detail"
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"(idiomatic, transitive) To review or analyse in great detail",
"(idiomatic, transitive) To criticise (especially small details)."
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"(idiomatic, transitive, sports) To overcome by skilled execution."
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