contextualize
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“These things were obviously true, and the knowledge undoubtedly helped doctors contextualize their patients’ problems.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 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
Citizens are citing executive actions, federal deployments and enforcement orders to contextualize the warning.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
Set against this backdrop, investors have increasingly been asking how to contextualize Rocket Lab’s valuation, according to Morgan Stanley’s Liwag.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025
We contextualize, filter, draw conclusions, and make inferences, in part, based on someone’s physical attributes.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
“Because it’s set on this vintage Hollywood soundstage, the director, Martin Gas, he contextualizes the ersatz vision of Japan because he puts a frame around it,” LA Opera CEO Christopher Koelsch said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 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
According to him "the language of food is a language that contextualizes, that situates, that moralizes, that challenges the supposedly neutral, non-cultural language of neoliberal economics."
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023
Justin Tinsley’s ‘It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him’ contextualizes the short life and immortal art of a one-of-a-kind rapper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Her book both documents and contextualizes Villanueva’s spiritual journey against the backdrop of Peru’s religious and political history.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
The Angels have since contextualized that quote to point out that Moreno was talking about what fans were seeking in deciding to attend a specific game, not about their fandom in general.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Real history is much more than just dates, facts and characters; it also encompasses how they are interpreted and contextualized.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
“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
But the Picture of the Year prize opted to recirculate an image that was not captured or contextualized in print as an indictment.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2024
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
“I think I need to find a balance of contextualizing it without thinking like I’m patronizing people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 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
Records of their histories come to us as snippets of dialogue from secondary characters or contextualizing conversations from what the official logs have to say about past missions.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2024
We learn to read all our original sources with a grain of salt, and develop innovative ways of analyzing and contextualizing them.
From Slate ● May 21, 2023
