decontextualizes
- present tense form of decontextualize (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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She knows that every documentary image is both a representation and a distortion, a captured reality that excludes and decontextualizes as much as it reveals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
“Misinformation takes something that’s true and decontextualizes it,” she says.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2022
He added that “just looking to see whether a publication uses causal language decontextualizes the way that an author may have nuanced or interpreted their findings.”
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2019
The common bust narrative decontextualizes its subject, with the bust seen as an isolated mistake as opposed to what it more often is—the product of widespread and deeply misbegotten consensus.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2013
