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contextualize

[kuhn-teks-choo-uh-lahyz] / kənˈtɛks tʃu əˌlaɪz /


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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

As we reflect on America’s 250th year, we highlight artworks on display at museums across Los Angeles that contextualize and challenge what it means to be American.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 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

"Black Mirror" most often contextualizes technology straightforwardly as “bad.”

From Salon Apr. 10, 2025

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

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 Angels have since contextualized that quote to point out that Moreno was talking about what fans were seeking in deciding to attend a specific game, not about their fandom in general.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2026

Real history is much more than just dates, facts and characters; it also encompasses how they are interpreted and contextualized.

From Salon May 14, 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

The MFA assembled 14 of these, contextualized by self-portraits, Japanese prints, works by artists Van Gogh admired, and paintings by Paul Gauguin, who joined his friend in the south toward the end of 1888.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 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

What you can see at the Deitch show, running through Jan. 17, is an artist contextualizing the people he loves within art history, while preserving their legacies for the record.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2025

Records of their histories come to us as snippets of dialogue from secondary characters or contextualizing conversations from what the official logs have to say about past missions.

From Salon Apr. 10, 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

We learn to read all our original sources with a grain of salt, and develop innovative ways of analyzing and contextualizing them.

From Slate May 21, 2023



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