recontextualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Malcolm: Yeah, we wanted to recontextualize the story, to visualize and deeper explore its themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
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
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
“Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” a new book by Gerrick Kennedy, seeks to recontextualize Whitney’s life, looking with compassion rather than scorn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
Intel’s new names may help the company recontextualize its current and future products more accurately against its competition, but the fact remains that Intel is behind.
From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2021
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
Starting with images of Black people culled from famous paintings, films and architecturally historic sites, the artist digitally recontextualized the figures, inventing a new narrative for them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Russ Federman loves to see customers recontextualizing dishes this way: “The opportunities to have so many different types of food come to you sort of expands the concept of what Thanksgiving can be.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Maybe the world didn’t need a two-decades-later recontextualizing of this story.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024
The connection between suffering and redemption is of course central to Christianity, making Breuer and Telson’s recontextualizing of the Oedipus story both resonant and curiously compatible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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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