recontextualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
“Summertime,” from the same album, is another perfect example of Coltrane’s ability to radically recontextualize pre-existing music.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
“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
Dylan did as much as anybody to dislodge that music from the center of American life, but in the last two decades he has reclaimed and recontextualized it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
In a lengthy Instagram post, singer Justin Timberlake apologized to fellow musicians Britney Spears and Janet Jackson for his past actions, which have been recontextualized in light of a new documentary.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 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
The rating change follows a wave of recontextualizing and reclassifying of films from bygone eras for modern audiences amid shifting cultural norms and mores.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Maybe the world didn’t need a two-decades-later recontextualizing of this story.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024
“I’m interested in that process of revisiting the archive of a well-known photographer, but recontextualizing part of the work so it tells a story that people didn’t know was there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
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