recontextualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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
More than any other tech journalist, I’ve cracked jokes about Apple’s “What’s a computer?” ad — the one that asks us to recontextualize how a new generation thinks about the iPad.
From The Verge ● Sep. 28, 2021
Audiences who know his hits will see them gorgeously recontextualized as needed to suit his life story — the chronology of his singles doesn’t matter at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Bows and ruffles, traditional symbols of femininity, were deconstructed and recontextualized.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
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
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
I love micro-sampling, taking like a second or something even smaller and then processing it and manipulating it and recontextualizing it and seeing what happens.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2021
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