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[kon-tekst] / ˈkɒn tɛkst /


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“She did something so economically irrational and inexplicable that it would make no sense other than when understood in the context of defendants’ scheme,” the filing stated.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

And the value of England's total was put into context by the quality of their bowling.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

While some primates use stone tools to access food, for instance to crack open nuts, accumulative stone throwing is a rare example of stone tool use in a social context.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

But the particularities of the sport outside its elegant, digestible, quadrennial national context were always too byzantine to wrap my head around.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

It was love in the context of the place I’d just left.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Wildfire risk depends on how landscapes are managed as well as on the ecological and social contexts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

"We are planning on further extending the experimental methods to delve deeper into different systems on our planet in different contexts, the possibilities are, quite literally, out of this world," says Noto.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

They were able to exploit a new database that extends back to 1799, and which I have written about before in other contexts.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

"But having said that, we know that pressure waves are a well-established cause of brain injury, both short and long-term in other contexts."

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Even with the syntax repaired, the sentences are difficult to understand, and the original contexts don’t make them any clearer.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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