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- verb Alternative spelling of
contextualize .
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Examples
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In a statement later on Thursday, Leon said it was not good enough to "simply invoke multi-culturalism or the imposition of religious law to rationalise or 'contextualise' this inhuman sentence".
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In a recent SANDF internal bulletin, released to "contextualise"
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But what the “Dogme movement” did was draw our attention to, validate, and contextualise what many teachers may have felt intuitively.
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The story comes from Cinema Blend who bend over backwards to contextualise this as a rumor, but a rumor from a credible source.
More Bond Rumors: Rachel Weisz Being Considered As Next James Bond Supervillain? | /Film 2010
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As for the piece above, I can only account for what bloggers – both those referred to and those not – write and contextualise them as regards the blogosphere and – to some extent – societal discourse.
Global Voices in English » Russia: Medvedev Murder Mystery 2009
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Gwilym MumfordIn the desperate scramble to contextualise the recent riots, a great deal of focus has been placed on the erosion of the nuclear family and concomitantly, the status of single mothers.
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Montalvo and Hervieu use dance and video to deepen the opera's resonances and contextualise its significance.
Porgy and Bess 2010
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Video, however, is also used to contextualise and politicise.
Porgy and Bess 2010
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Languages dying out always depresses me, because languages are the most basic lenses we use to contextualise our world.
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Like much of the statistics generated by the government, Ofsted reports and DCSF data is hard to digest, hard to search and hard to contextualise.
Schooloscope: The 4ip-funded project to make Ofsted tables accessible 2010
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