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contextualize

[kuhn-teks-choo-uh-lahyz] / kənˈtɛks tʃu əˌlaɪz /


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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

That gives ServiceNow a “key strategic advantage versus third-party AI tools” that need to extract, contextualize and reintegrate data across platforms, Bank of America analyst Tal Liani wrote in a Thursday note.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

“These things were obviously true, and the knowledge undoubtedly helped doctors contextualize their patients’ problems.

From Slate Jun. 18, 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

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

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

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

“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

The MFA assembled 14 of these, contextualized by self-portraits, Japanese prints, works by artists Van Gogh admired, and paintings by Paul Gauguin, who joined his friend in the south toward the end of 1888.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Just don’t expect anything about this elemental contest to be explained to you, or even contextualized.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2025

In her newsletter, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat contextualized Friday’s awful events this way:

From Salon Mar. 4, 2025

He only needs to make overt what is not often enough acknowledged, that there is a unique pleasure in the dignity of hard work that does not have to be contextualized as anything else.

From Slate Oct. 1, 2024

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

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

But as the movie winds back to foreground instructor Hori’s POV, adding contextualizing reverse angles and extra information to every replayed moment after, a thornier reality emerges, one that absolves and complicates in equal measure.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2023

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

The university wanted to double the number of professors from marginalized groups, increase the enrollment of students of color, and remove or reframe campus monuments, including contextualizing the university’s historical representation of Jefferson.

From New York Times Apr. 23, 2023



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