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decontextualising

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  • verb Present participle of decontextualise.

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Examples

  • 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.

    The Broken (Nihilist) Society? 2008

  • ” We’re decontextualising, pasting bits of other people’s work on our blogs and creating unoriginal mash-ups,” she said.

    Is the internet “toxic to fiction”? 2010

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