contextualize
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This mission guided her through the process of selecting works by famous artists from SFMOMA’s collection to contextualize RM’s pieces from lesser-known but equally important names.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
"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
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
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
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Worthwhile documentaries crystallize a point in time in a way that contextualizes current circumstances.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2025
“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
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
A composer who often contextualizes with music from the past in unexpected ways, he riffs on the famous watery opening of “Das Rheingold,” conflating Cleopatra’s Nile to Wagner’s Rhine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
Huang’s AGI claim was contextualized by a definition of AI running a $1 billion company, which he said was possible but potentially not sustainable.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 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
The book both published and contextualized the notes Babb took while she was working at the FSA camps with Tom Collins.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
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
“Patient Zero” eventually reveals a headline about the death of an heiress, contextualizing Swift’s mysterious omnipresence in the couple’s lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
And yet that’s precisely why Adair’s straightforward contextualizing is so vital.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2023
Now, with Spears contextualizing it all in her new book, “The Woman in Me,” we’re tracking some of her biggest headlines, sprinkled with the backstory she provides in the tell-all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
But embedded in such restrictions one may infer either a resistance to having his work pushed to the fringes, or a pretension in contextualizing it as a mainstream experience.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
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