contextualize

Example Sentences

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Comparing car prices to income can help contextualize how price changes impact families.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

Set against this backdrop, investors have increasingly been asking how to contextualize Rocket Lab’s valuation, according to Morgan Stanley’s Liwag.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 17, 2025

Experts said it is important to contextualize this moment within American history, but with an awareness of the modern factors shaping it in unique ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

"When I have a camera in my hand and I’m looking through that lens, I’m able to contextualize and structure my environment, and it’s my own little firewall, probably against nervousness."

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2025

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