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Example Sentences

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A headache can be benign or life-threatening depending on the context.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Again, not a word about the coercive therapeutic context in which vulnerable minors will be subjected to those “ideas” and pressed to implement them.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

It said the release was taking place "in the context of the religious celebrations of Holy Week, which is a customary practice in our criminal justice system".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

As impressed with “The Drama” as I am, it would be insincere not to look at Borgli’s film in a wider context.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Specific sequences of DNA were appended to a gene that provided context for its activity—its “work.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee