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Whose "coconut tree" speech included the line "You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you"?

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[kon-tekst] / ˈkɒn tɛkst /


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In this context, valency refers to the number of connections a nanoparticle forms with its neighbors.

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To place these thoughts in a workaday context, it’s important to note that Microsoft treats Anthropic as a competitor in the AI space.

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Incidentally, the £10bn figure is contested by some – or at least placed in a wider context.

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I hadn’t meant to, but I guess I’d been thinking of him kind of as a teacher—like he only existed in the context of school and our egg drop.

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“Crystal Lake” and “Carrie” have the unenviable task of taking scary mommies we already know and helping us understand their motivations in new contexts.

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Democracies do this as a matter of course, and we can, too, even if we modify these lessons, and learn from their shortcomings, for our own particular contexts.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026

"Our findings show that it might be worthwhile to examine targeted antibiotics from ethnographic contexts - or, as in this case, from prehistoric contexts - in greater depth," concludes Siemssen.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

She has recorded her meditative work “The Ballerina” in several duet contexts, but here she and Mr. Hurst trade interlocking figures while Mr. Blake’s shimmering percussion provides a stellar backdrop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Hamilton had played the same role in both contexts.

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