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[kon-tekst] / ˈkɒn tɛkst /


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In this context, "organic" simply means carbon-based and does not indicate that the material came from life.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

"To put £36 m in context, one man has donated a sum bigger than Labour's entire 2024 election budget, bigger than the Conservatives', and about six times what Reform actually spent," a senior figure told me.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

The world-ending A.I. bogeyman becomes even less believable when the warnings are placed in proper context.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

“We do acknowledge that it’s a tragic event. We don’t fully go into it. Since we weren’t really taught about it, we don’t have a lot of context on it,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Specific sequences of DNA were appended to a gene that provided context for its activity—its “work.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"Community Notes are not enough in contexts of high disinformation," it said, calling on Meta "to complement, not replace, independent verification."

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

“We looked specifically at meows in two contexts: separation from their human in an unfamiliar environment, and then the human’s return,” Schwartz says.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Mr. Blaževičius’s considerable achievement here is to have created a film that observes them in dual heightened contexts, of history and heartbreak, without forcing the connections between the two.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

"I think one problem is that people are overgeneralising it and using it in contexts where it might not be the best framework to explain our behaviour," he says.

From BBC Jul. 28, 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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