recontextualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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The film manages to recontextualize one of the most thoroughly examined pieces of English-language literature, asking audiences to see it with fresh eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Which is exciting for us, to keep on having to rethink and recontextualize the way in which these people relate to one another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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
And though each production brings art from the past to the present, sometimes in brilliant ways, the antiquated plots, themes and characters aren’t always easy to recontextualize.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 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
When I became a father, I recontextualized my childhood in a completely different way.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024
Bows and ruffles, traditional symbols of femininity, were deconstructed and recontextualized.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
The second time, curiously, the solipsism either retreated or recontextualized itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 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
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
By recontextualizing prep, Academy shows that “tradition” doesn’t have to mean exclusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024
Maybe the world didn’t need a two-decades-later recontextualizing of this story.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024
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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