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decontextualized

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decontextualize.

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Examples

  • Often it is decontextualized, that is, removed from everyday familiar background settings, dealing, for example, with major differences between the last four Chinese dynasties rather than “what I most like to do on weekends.”

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • Often it is decontextualized, that is, removed from everyday familiar background settings, dealing, for example, with major differences between the last four Chinese dynasties rather than “what I most like to do on weekends.”

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • Cognition and emotion, thinking and feeling, interpreting and relating -- these are separable only in pathology, as can be seen in the case of Descartes himself, the profoundly isolated man who created a doctrine of the isolated mind, of disembodied, unembedded, decontextualized cogito.

    Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change? Robert D. Stolorow 2012

  • Most exhibited works were decontextualized, without information about origins.

    The Beautiful and the True Malcolm Bell 2011

  • Cognition and emotion, thinking and feeling, interpreting and relating -- these are separable only in pathology, as can be seen in the case of Descartes himself, the profoundly isolated man who created a doctrine of the isolated mind, of disembodied, unembedded, decontextualized cogito.

    Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change? Robert D. Stolorow 2012

  • Cognition and emotion, thinking and feeling, interpreting and relating -- these are separable only in pathology, as can be seen in the case of Descartes himself, the profoundly isolated man who created a doctrine of the isolated mind, of disembodied, unembedded, decontextualized cogito.

    Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change? Robert D. Stolorow 2012

  • Here, it's as if someone plugged an amplifier into a Mark Rothko painting -- color, texture, space are decontextualized and presented in striking elemental form.

    Daniel J. Kushner: Anti-Cinematic: The Music of Kyle Bobby Dunn Daniel J. Kushner 2011

  • His statement about the lack of an adequate observational network to diagnose the climate's response to interannual variability was decontextualized and thus trumped up as has been done in the past to make it appear it's an admission that global warming has ceased.

    Bill Chameides: Wall Street Journal's Portrait of the Young Climate Scientist Bill Chameides 2012

  • Here, it's as if someone plugged an amplifier into a Mark Rothko painting -- color, texture, space are decontextualized and presented in striking elemental form.

    Daniel J. Kushner: Anti-Cinematic: The Music of Kyle Bobby Dunn Daniel J. Kushner 2011

  • His statement about the lack of an adequate observational network to diagnose the climate's response to interannual variability was decontextualized and thus trumped up as has been done in the past to make it appear it's an admission that global warming has ceased.

    Bill Chameides: Wall Street Journal's Portrait of the Young Climate Scientist Bill Chameides 2012

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