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“She did something so economically irrational and inexplicable that it would make no sense other than when understood in the context of defendants’ scheme,” the filing stated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
While some primates use stone tools to access food, for instance to crack open nuts, accumulative stone throwing is a rare example of stone tool use in a social context.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
But the particularities of the sport outside its elegant, digestible, quadrennial national context were always too byzantine to wrap my head around.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Flying Food Group vehemently denied the substance of the complaint, writing in its statement that “images were staged, manipulated, taken out of context, or otherwise presented in a manner that distorts their meaning.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Mr. Blaževičius’s considerable achievement here is to have created a film that observes them in dual heightened contexts, of history and heartbreak, without forcing the connections between the two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Kering is targeting a return to growth and improved margins this year, but noted that geopolitical and economic contexts remain uncertain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Hannah says she had no emotional connection to her previous surname, and it often confused people when she would use two surnames in different contexts.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
They were able to exploit a new database that extends back to 1799, and which I have written about before in other contexts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Since what is often at stake in moral choices is confidence that one has got the facts right, the term was extended to other contexts in which people make judgements about questions of fact.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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