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
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. Bailey also struggles to contextualize within her work Spark’s conversion to Catholicism in 1954.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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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Sierra also contextualizes Kenmure Street within the long shadow of slavery, industry, imperialism and grassroots opposition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
But its good witchery also contextualizes the quest for sanity in mad times like ours with comforting observations about occultism’s role during eras of social upheaval.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Critical race theory is an approach to contextualizing our understanding of race.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023