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Typo: "prise apart" not "prize apart".
EDIT: another typo: "tl;dr" at the start of the post. Please consider getting rid of this habit. Your writing is, as a rule, improved by moving your main point to the top, and this reader appreciates your doing that; the cutesy Internetism is an needless distraction.
"Prise" is a variant spelling of "prize" in my dictionary. Are we looking for the word "pry"?
Dunno - I didn't actually check the dictionary, just a Google search for relative frequency of "prize apart" which I found jarring, vs. "prise apart" which sounded no alarm. The first mostly appears with "prize" being a noun not a verb, so I supposed my gut feel was correct. Call that the Language Log method. ;)
The dictionary method does suggest "prize apart" is also correct, if less common. Looks like I made a wrong call.
I looked at it in more detail and it appears that "prise" is a valid variant of "prize" only when using it as a synonym of "pry." So... that is a little confusing but now I know something new. :)
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