contextualize

Example Sentences

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Comparing car prices to income can help contextualize how price changes impact families.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

Set against this backdrop, investors have increasingly been asking how to contextualize Rocket Lab’s valuation, according to Morgan Stanley’s Liwag.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 17, 2025

He died in 1994 at 45 years old from cancer likely related to Agent Orange exposure, and local advocates have worked for years to contextualize his crimes with his service-related mental illness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025

Short films contextualize the seeming randomness and brevity of human existence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2025

It is the Bible and the tradition of the Church which provides the textual testimony; the circumstances contextualize the testimony and accompany it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton