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
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
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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“O.J.: Made in America” contextualizes Simpson’s life, career and notoriety with race relations in the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 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
A composer who often contextualizes with music from the past in unexpected ways, he riffs on the famous watery opening of “Das Rheingold,” conflating Cleopatra’s Nile to Wagner’s Rhine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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
Huang’s AGI claim was contextualized by a definition of AI running a $1 billion company, which he said was possible but potentially not sustainable.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 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
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
“But it’s a conversation contextualized by what the DJ does.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
He suggested a “three-prong approach” to contextualizing the topic of “holdover” fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
The human data annotator team at xAI plays a key role in teaching Grok to understand the world by labeling, contextualizing, and categorizing raw data used to train the chatbot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
The match takes up the entire movie, with flashbacks and series callbacks fully contextualizing the relationships and stakes at work in the game.
From New York Times ● May 30, 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
Critical race theory is an approach to contextualizing our understanding of race.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023