contextualize

"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

Mr. Bailey also struggles to contextualize within her work Spark’s conversion to Catholicism in 1954.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

“These things were obviously true, and the knowledge undoubtedly helped doctors contextualize their patients’ problems.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

You contextualize learned behavior; you contextualize trauma and things they learned that make them these repressed adults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

For years I'd wanted to implement a project to change the way we talk about racial history and contextualize contemporary race issues.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Worthwhile documentaries crystallize a point in time in a way that contextualizes current circumstances.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2025

“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

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

Her book both documents and contextualizes Villanueva’s spiritual journey against the backdrop of Peru’s religious and political history.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

The detail that the average person takes 450 selfies a year is powerful, especially when contextualized against their disposability—compared, for example, with the daguerreotype.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“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

Mel Brooks famously contextualized our perspective on misfortune when he said, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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

But the Picture of the Year prize opted to recirculate an image that was not captured or contextualized in print as an indictment.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 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