decontextualize
verb (used with object)
to remove (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) from a context.
decontextualized
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past participleof decontextualize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof decontextualize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
decontextualizeverb (used with object)to remove (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) from a context.
Example Sentences
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Students should read entire books, not decontextualized passages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
I described it in the book as a kind of Hollywood fantasy about the amorality of Washington, albeit in a crucially decontextualized way.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
Records often include decontextualized information, and it can be easy for people to spin that into whatever story they want to tell.
From The Verge ● Jun. 29, 2022
And on the internet, hooks can seem to share the double-edged canonization of one of her childhood muses, Emily Dickinson, another radical woman writer whose words lend themselves to decontextualized poster-ready #inspo.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
Social VR is dynamic, instantaneous, simultaneously decontextualized and embodied.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2021
