contextual

[ kuhn-teks-choo-uhl ]

/ kənˈtɛks tʃu əl /

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adjective

of, relating to, or depending on the context.

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Origin of contextual

1805–15; <Latin contextu-, stem of contextuscontext + -al¹

OTHER WORDS FROM contextual

con·tex·tu·al·ly, adverbnon·con·tex·tu·al, adjectivenon·con·tex·tu·al·ly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH contextual

contextual , contractual

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How to use contextual in a sentence

Harvard’s use of race in admissions is contextual and it does not consider race exclusively.
Appeals court upholds ruling that Harvard admissions does not discriminate against Asian Americans|Nick Anderson|November 12, 2020|Washington Post
The main point is, passage ranking with BERT is BERT completely repurposed to add contextual meanings to a training set of passages in two stages.
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT?|Dawn Anderson|October 29, 2020|Search Engine Land
So his team created a solution using artificial intelligence and hyper-contextual data to continually optimize a series of display ads that featured Campbell’s branding.
‘This is a tricky job for humans’: How Meredith used AI and contextual data to build Campbell’s a new campaign|Kayleigh Barber|October 26, 2020|Digiday
One would be to set a primary, non-Google ad server to deliver contextual ads when no consent is given and to call Google’s ad server afterwards, to act as a competitor to the first ad server if the user has given consent for cookies.
Publishers and ad tech vendors find Google’s new ‘Limited Ads’ feature to be, well, limited|Lara O'Reilly|October 2, 2020|Digiday

Widely proven to help brands maintain the relevancy of their advertising to consumers, the accuracy and precision of contextual targeting will only increase as technology continues to evolve.
How to approach a long-term identity strategy, minus third-party cookies|Xandr|October 1, 2020|Digiday
In 1993 National Review fired Joseph Sobran after repudiating what Buckley called his “contextually anti-Semitic” writing.
National Review’s Firing of John Derbyshire a Welcome Blow Against Racism|Peter Beinart|April 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
This is grammatically quite good, but contextually impossible.
Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians|James Denney

British Dictionary definitions for contextual

contextual

/ (kənˈtɛkstjʊəl) /

adjective

relating to, dependent on, or using contextcontextual criticism of a book

Derived forms of contextual

contextually, adverb

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