Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To place or view (a work of literature or art, for example) in a new or unfamiliar context, especially in order to suggest a different interpretation.
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- verb To set in a new
context .
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Examples
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I haven't been following your story for a long while yet, but from I can tell you seem to be trying to recontextualize the experience of playing and listening to the organ.
Albert Imperato: Cameron Carpenter -- Taking His Organ on the Road 2010
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Beginning on September 11, he set out to help recontextualize the Holocaust within the Arab-Israeli struggle by writing a book about Arabs who helped Jews during the Holocaust.
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On my walk home I decided I'd see if I could recontextualize these posters 'visual power with messages that speak to our present political roadblock.
Chamomile Tea Party Urges An End To Partisan Bickering Through Old-School Poster Designs [SLIDESHOW] 2010
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Complex solutions (reduce abuse by reducing poverty and rebuilding the family, reduce bullying by diversity and education, recontextualize violence as inappropriate in more circumstances) are harder to conceive and immeasurably harder to implement, especially when public policy ideas must be sold in six-second sound bites.
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But, these posters – which recontextualize Shakespeare against “the rural Canadian experience” – were made as a self-promotion piece (translation: for fun).
Archive 2008-03-01 The Nag 2008
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On my walk home I decided I'd see if I could recontextualize these posters 'visual power with messages that speak to our present political roadblock.
Chamomile Tea Party Urges An End To Partisan Bickering Through Old-School Poster Designs [SLIDESHOW] 2010
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I haven't been following your story for a long while yet, but from I can tell you seem to be trying to recontextualize the experience of playing and listening to the organ.
Albert Imperato: Cameron Carpenter -- Taking His Organ on the Road 2010
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Complex solutions (reduce abuse by reducing poverty and rebuilding the family, reduce bullying by diversity and education, recontextualize violence as inappropriate in more circumstances) are harder to conceive and immeasurably harder to implement, especially when public policy ideas must be sold in six-second sound bites.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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And I try to use as much of the performance space as possible and try to recontextualize the rooms in as many ways as I can.
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Though they may have readied themselves to make a smaller commercial impact, there is a slightly resigned quality to the back end — a lingering echo of their desire to recontextualize the popular, by virtue of their very existence along its margins.
Fringe Benefits 2009
vanishedone commented on the word recontextualize
v. What will happen to this ghosted word if anyone ever lists it.
April 12, 2009