contextualize
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"TRACE allowed us to contextualize how the ancestry segments from these previously uncharacterized hominins are distributed throughout the human genome," Biddanda said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Mr. Bailey also struggles to contextualize within her work Spark’s conversion to Catholicism in 1954.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
You contextualize learned behavior; you contextualize trauma and things they learned that make them these repressed adults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
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
For years I'd wanted to implement a project to change the way we talk about racial history and contextualize contemporary race issues.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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“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
Throughout “Destiny of Desire,” Zacarías contextualizes events to show that they aren’t as far-fetched as they might seem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
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
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
The detail that the average person takes 450 selfies a year is powerful, especially when contextualized against their disposability—compared, for example, with the daguerreotype.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
I use the sunsets and the beauty to create a dialogue, to entice people to sort of look a little bit at how things are contextualized, how things act, what’s actually happening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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
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
In contextualizing the visceral action, the cinematographer isolated the character from the stark environment, illustrating his hyperfocused, meticulous nature as the hair-raising tension builds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
“Often, misinformation is merely someone contextualizing information in a way that someone else disagrees with, or would contextualize differently,” Bauer said.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 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
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