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 palm inspired her to use this highly abundant, resilient, but often discarded element, and recontextualize it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
They offer artists a chance to recontextualize themselves, play around in a nostalgic format, reinvent traditions and even strike gold in what’s become a lucrative season for the music business.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
A Meta Quest 2 is a midrange Android phone on your face — just recontextualize all these parts.
From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022
Now, like the proverbial phoenix, Akashi’s show will go on, recontextualized to meet the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
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
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
The idea of representation, the idea of recontextualizing what you think the norm is, is always important.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2021
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