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
As we reflect on America’s 250th year, we highlight artworks on display at museums across Los Angeles that contextualize and challenge what it means to be American.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
He likewise mentioned a 1955 Eleanor Roosevelt radio interview he uncovered—which he could access and contextualize because his father was the correspondent.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 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
It cements the reality of the event and contextualizes it within a broader narrative.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 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
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
What's missing — and what is sorely needed when it comes to books about the Rolling Stones — is the book that contextualizes their music within the mayhem that Jones catalogues.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2022
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
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
“But it’s a conversation contextualized by what the DJ does.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 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
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 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
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
