decentre
Americanverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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To truly decentre how we see art, we need to escape the archetypally western cult of the new: to risk a journey in time as well as space.
From The Guardian
By one of those intellectual masterstrokes of modern curating, the organisers of this show have decided to decentre the big three macho Mexican revolutionary artists.
From The Guardian
To mangle Yeats: "Things fall apart; decentre cannot hold."
From The Guardian
To further decentre the war from his narrative, he takes us on a tour that includes places apparently aloof from the approaching carnage.
From The Guardian
For the Inner Party in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four it was the ability to acknowledge that the proles mattered, while we seem to have lost the ability to "decentre" and see the world from the viewpoint of another.
From BBC
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