contextualize
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Typing those words as an American in 2026 is overwhelming, even if the purpose here is simply to temporally contextualize this project.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026
He also sought to contextualize it in the context of the broader chip rout that’s gripped markets in recent years.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
What Makowsky did, Ross says, was contextualize the history through the prism of two very different people, Garfield and Guiteau.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
He likewise mentioned a 1955 Eleanor Roosevelt radio interview he uncovered—which he could access and contextualize because his father was the correspondent.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025
It is the Bible and the tradition of the Church which provides the textual testimony; the circumstances contextualize the testimony and accompany it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"Black Mirror" most often contextualizes technology straightforwardly as “bad.”
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025
“O.J.: Made in America” contextualizes Simpson’s life, career and notoriety with race relations in the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
Molly Olmstead contextualizes the controversy and argues that the Sisters’ work is hardly at odds with the work of religious sisters generally.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2023
She contextualizes the legacy of Mexican feminism with the story of the protesters who demonstrated for justice after a teenager was raped by police officers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
The four-disc Blu-ray set also contextualizes the history and impact of this work via an impressive assortment of intros, documentaries, interviews and commentary tracks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
“Not an unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy – but AI that is carefully calibrated, contextualized, within limits.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
Cignetti contextualized last year’s comeuppance—OSU and ND met in the national championship, he reminded everyone—while reloading for 2025 with a new quarterback and confidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Mel Brooks famously contextualized our perspective on misfortune when he said, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
In her newsletter, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat contextualized Friday’s awful events this way:
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025
He only needs to make overt what is not often enough acknowledged, that there is a unique pleasure in the dignity of hard work that does not have to be contextualized as anything else.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024
He suggested a “three-prong approach” to contextualizing the topic of “holdover” fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
What you can see at the Deitch show, running through Jan. 17, is an artist contextualizing the people he loves within art history, while preserving their legacies for the record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
The match takes up the entire movie, with flashbacks and series callbacks fully contextualizing the relationships and stakes at work in the game.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
It opens by contextualizing the dispute, framing the dispute in a way that is favorable to the narrative that they want to tell.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024
Critical race theory is an approach to contextualizing our understanding of race.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
