decontextualizing
- present participle of decontextualize.
Example Sentences
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I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
But decontextualizing it out of the internet and putting it onto the medium of television just made it feel absurd to everyone.
From The Verge ● Jun. 14, 2022
Pivi is decontextualizing and re-sculpting a symbol rather than a rote object.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
And by decontextualizing suffering, it leaves us desensitized.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2021
“Beer Money” also seems like it might be a terminal point for Mooney and Beck Bennett’s long-term project of decontextualizing the theatrical conventions of late 1980s television.
From Slate ● May 10, 2020
