MEANING
to examine something systematically by considering its components, patterns, or relationships
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Words that belong together
- analyze the data
- analyze a text
- analyze the relationship
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The chapter analyzes how the narrator distributes information.
Researchers analyzed the relationship between income and access.
Rather than retell the event, the essay analyzes its causes.
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Word forms
- Base
- analyze / analyzes
- Past tense
- analyzed
- Past participle
- analyzed
- Present participle
- analyzing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- analyze / analyzes
- Present continuous
- am/is/are analyzing
- Present perfect
- have/has analyzed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been analyzing
- Past
- analyzed
- Past continuous
- was/were analyzing
- Past perfect
- had analyzed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been analyzing
- Future
- will analyze / analyzes
- Future continuous
- will be analyzing
- Future perfect
- will have analyzed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been analyzing
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Primary curation section: Academic. More than summarizing: analysis explains how parts work or how evidence bears on a question. analyze; analyzes; analyzed; analyzed; analyzing. British variant: analyse. Related forms: analysis, analyses, analytical, analytically.
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