context

Example Sentences

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That context makes it clearer to understand why, four decades after it flopped in theaters, “Labyrinth” and Bowie’s work in it are now beloved cultural touchstones.

From Salon

Instead of chasing iconic dishes, she encourages attention to context: why this food exists here, now, in this season.

From Salon

But he put those problems in the larger context of America’s friendship with Britain—“kindred countries of kindred principles.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In the context of the ICE search, it means that a person’s home, as they say, really is their castle.

From Salon

If people give definitive answers that lack context, that could show that “they’re not curious to ask a secondary question, which might give them additional information to think differently,” he told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch