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
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
Mr. Russell helps readers contextualize James’s reputation, which has been pickled in generations of macho nonsense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
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
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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“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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