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contextualising

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  • verb Present participle of contextualise.

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Examples

  • I guess when the contextualising is done by robots, it won’t always be right.

    Ads infiltrate my GMail RSS feeds « Squash 2006

  • The draft text of the Geneva declaration, whilst still problematic, was a significant evolution from the original Durban declaration, and UN officials highlighted the need for "contextualising" the reaffirmation of that document - diplomatic code for downgrading its significance.

    Totally Jewish News Feed 2009

  • In my case certainly, writing and reading fiction is a way of contextualising the world, putting the issues together in a story which is an alternative way of understanding things that can exist side by side your usual philosophical debate.

    Why Write Fiction? « Write Anything 2009

  • But note how many of them involve contextualising the direct experiences in the natural world, albeit within the frame of reference of how they are processed via what we call ‘consciousness’.

    Another Look 2009

  • Sooke has an upbeat, nerdy style that's usually found in a science boffin rather than an art expert, and it pays dividends: he disarms his interviewees, asks the right questions, while contextualising effortlessly.

    Rewind radio: Smiley's People; Sport and the British; Nicky Campbell 2012

  • Freddy's parameters are firmly set in pre-feminist notions of what women want - contextualising their whole existence in opposition to men.

    Mad Men: season four, episode two 2010

  • No after-the-fact analysis or interviews with those who knew him, no contextualising montages, no clever technical conceits.

    Edinburgh 2010 Review: AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE | Obsessed With Film 2010

  • In this new world, as Julian Assange has acknowledged by using trusted news organisations to reveal the secrets, the process of editing and sifting and contextualising stories becomes more crucial than ever.

    20 things we learned in 2010 2010

  • Letters to Joyce are few and far between, and some fuller contextualising footnotes from the editor Keri Walsh would have been helpful.

    The Letters of Sylvia Beach edited by Keri Walsh 2010

  • If anything, Americans, with a shorter national history than their European counterparts, are more preoccupied with historically contextualising the current moment than most other nations.

    America's incomplete vision of the past 2010

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