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[kon-tekst] / ˈkɒn tɛkst /


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In this context, "organic" simply means carbon-based and does not indicate that the material came from life.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

"To put £36 m in context, one man has donated a sum bigger than Labour's entire 2024 election budget, bigger than the Conservatives', and about six times what Reform actually spent," a senior figure told me.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

The world-ending A.I. bogeyman becomes even less believable when the warnings are placed in proper context.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

“We do acknowledge that it’s a tragic event. We don’t fully go into it. Since we weren’t really taught about it, we don’t have a lot of context on it,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

I may have buried the lead, but I need to give you twenty years of epically romantic context before we revisit the end of their marriage.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

“We found some subtle but consistent differences in the pitch and length of meows between those two contexts, suggesting maybe cats have different meows for ‘Where did you go?’ and ‘You’re back!’

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

In both books, the reader advances from scene to scene as though balancing on a tightrope, blind to the wider contexts of events and agitatedly aware that disaster could occur at any moment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 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

"We are planning on further extending the experimental methods to delve deeper into different systems on our planet in different contexts, the possibilities are, quite literally, out of this world," says Noto.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Even with the syntax repaired, the sentences are difficult to understand, and the original contexts don’t make them any clearer.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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