context

Example Sentences

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The context: My father suffered from early-onset dementia and passed away far too young.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

But without understanding the context of the Emancipation Proclamation, emancipation appears merely tactical—and not what Lincoln understood it to be: a moral reckoning carried out under extraordinary political and personal pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Memories, associations and context all go into assigning value and meaning to an object.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

"The future of Meta AI is rooted in the relationships and context already at the center of your life," the company said.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

At least at the level of language, then, we need to recover the eighteenth-century context of things and not read back into those years the hallowed meanings they would acquire over the next century.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis