(analyses)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
We did an ~ of the way that government money has been spent in the past.
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2.
Analysis is the scientific process of examining something in order to find out what it consists of.
They collect blood samples for ~ at a national laboratory...
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3.
An ~ is an explanation or description that results from considering something carefully.
...coming up after the newscast, an ~ of President Bush’s domestic policy.
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4.
You use the expression in the final ~ or in the last ~ to indicate that the statement you are making is the most important or basic aspect of an issue.
I’m on the right track and I think in the final ~ people will understand that...
Violence in the last ~ produces more violence.
= in the end
PHRASE: PHR with cl