recontextualize
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The participants were then asked to recontextualize the stimulus by generating new kinds of thoughts about an image to make it less aversive, before a neutral image was presented followed by another dislikable image.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2024
Alexander has helped put the weight of this powerful New York City foundation behind initiatives to study, preserve and recontextualize monuments — as well as remove them when their communities no longer deem them appropriate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
The palm inspired her to use this highly abundant, resilient, but often discarded element, and recontextualize it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
The improvised section is based on Jesse Greer’s iconic “Just You, Just Me,” showing bebop’s ability to recontextualize the pop song form.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Sampling is when you directly take a piece of the recorded material and you recontextualize it in a new song.
From The Verge ● Sep. 15, 2021
It also carries a contemporary resonance that’s new for the project, and has something to say about how the past can be recontextualized to sound like the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Bows and ruffles, traditional symbols of femininity, were deconstructed and recontextualized.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
As the scene goes on, the song is recontextualized into a taunting cackle at the police officer's helplessness.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2022
You see those parts get recontextualized in all kinds of ways: LCD screens are all over the place.
From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022
But plays can be recontextualized, their problematic aspects examined in fresh light, their theatrical legacies sifted for new approaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
Most are now delaying or recontextualizing those goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Maybe the world didn’t need a two-decades-later recontextualizing of this story.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024
Of course, every animal story from “The Metamorphosis” to “Charlotte’s Web” strives to do something like that, exposing our humanity by recontextualizing it in the animal world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
But she saves that devastating tale for the final chapter, in which she details their troubled marriage and ugly divorce, all while thoughtfully recontextualizing their parenting within her own decision to become a mother.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022
Also recontextualizing Shakespeare with a political bent will be Spiderwoman Theater’s “Misdemeanor Dream,” scheduled to run at La MaMa from March 10-27.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
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