to contextualize
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6.3
- verb
- /kənˈtɛkstʃuəˌlaɪz/
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contextualizar
- So hopefully that helps you contextualize what this guy is up to.
- contextualized instruction
- contextualize the data
- contextualized experience
So hopefully that helps you contextualize what this guy is up to.
- So hopefully that helps you contextualize what this guy is up to.
- Their healing and survival may have come from trying to contextualize what they were experiencing.
- Their healing and survival may have come from them trying to contextualize what they experienced.
- Like, you know, the only thing that works for me is trying to contextualize moments in time.
- Like I, I think so much of my happiness comes from contextualizing time better than most people.
- I needed a mentor to help me contextualize what I was coming from and what I'm going to.
- Well, and, and, and then let's also contextualize how the decline is being reported, OK?
- I, I, I had been saying up until that moment that this event, this eclipse would contextualize our local neighborhood of the universe to us.
- Empathy means you may understand their experience, be able to contextualize it, but it doesn't mean you agree with it.
- But yeah, that's, that's, I feel like that's what I have to to add to just like help people understand and contextualize the moment, the world, their country.
Examples
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In order to discuss the impact of climate change, scientists must contextualize their findings within current global trends.
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Exploring the local Mexican American community is another opportunity to contextualize this music and make it more relevant to students.
Academic text (2008) -
OK, OK, so how do we contextualize these changes?
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But before we do that, perhaps we can kind of contextualize this a little bit by speaking to your background.
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Is it to contextualize life in America for your audience in China?
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Like, you know, the only thing that works for me is trying to contextualize moments in time.
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And so I spend all my time trying to contextualize what's actually happening.
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I needed a mentor to help me contextualize what I was coming from and what I'm going to.
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Maps that pinpoint where photographs were taken help to contextualize the experience geographically.
Academic text (1999) -
Shan Yu records every interaction she hears for her podcast which she uses to contextualize life in America for her audience in China.
Synonyms
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1.0
To make something clear by describing it in simple words
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4.8
To make something clear or easier to understand
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4.4
To help someone see how important something really is by comparing it with other things or giving background
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5.1
To make something easier to understand by removing mystery or confusion
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8.3
Putting something in a new setting changes its meaning
How Contextualized
Surface Forms
Morphology
contextualize = contextual (transparent) = context + ual + ize
The verb is formed by adding a productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to the clear adjective 'contextual', so the action 'place in context' is predictable.
Etymology
Contextualize comes from the word context, which originally meant 'weave together' and shares the same root as the familiar word text. So to contextualize something is to 'make' it part of its situation or background, putting it into the surrounding information so it is easier to understand.