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- verb Present participle of
decontextualise .
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Examples
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I know it's just politics, but this tendency toward extrapolating and decontextualising speeches is a little bit tedious and even more so intellectually bankrupt.
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” We’re decontextualising, pasting bits of other people’s work on our blogs and creating unoriginal mash-ups,” she said.
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