contextualization
noun
the act or an instance of putting something in a particular context; explanation.
recontextualization
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a word derived from
contextualization.
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a word derived from
recontextualize.
recontextualizeverb (used with object)to place in a new or different context so as to bring out a different meaning, create a different effect, etc.
Example Sentences
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But McDonald is attempting something far more radical, incorporating her full historical self as a Black woman to serve the musical’s recontextualization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
And Sanchez paints vibrant, contrasting hues and sharp lines as a recontextualization of basic forms and colors.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
I had goose bumps hearing Williams’s fracturing and recontextualization of it.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
Some of the excellent density of “Random Acts of Flyness” owes to the show’s fond explosions of visual noise and its recontextualization of stock effects.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2018
But the immediate repurposing and recontextualization of the media that we're all paying attention to has basically become a crucial part of how we consume that media in the first place.
From The Verge ● Aug. 5, 2016
