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decontextualise

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  • verb Alternative spelling of decontextualize.

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Examples

  • Second, it served to 'decontextualise' the historical precedent of the existence of Al Qaeda - both a product and a consequence of the heart of the US military machine.

    {caffeine_sparks} 2009

  • Second, it served to 'decontextualise' the historical precedent of the existence of Al Qaeda - both a product and a consequence of the heart of the US military machine.

    {caffeine_sparks} 2009

  • However to simply decontextualise challenges is not adequate enough.

    Speech by Samsom Mohote during the debate on the Safety & Security budget vote 2008

  • It soon becomes clear that his mission is much more mundane, is indeed the everyday grind of papers like the Mail: to create outrage where there was none before, to smear, misrepresent and decontextualise, in order to strangle the possibility of real debate. an article of mine.

    iToot Stream Robin Yassin-Kassabc 2010

  • It soon becomes clear that his mission is much more mundane, is indeed the everyday grind of papers like the Mail: to create outrage where there was none before, to smear, misrepresent and decontextualise, in order to strangle the possibility of real debate. an article of mine.

    iToot Stream Robin Yassin-Kassabc 2010

  • Anti-alcohol campaigners carefully decontextualise social drinking in an attempt to present you with an artificial cost-benefit analysis that denies any benefits while exaggerating the costs for comic effect. they scream, but of course we don't; we relax with friends on a Friday night, we share a bottle of wine with a lover, we get unsolicited life lessons over a pint with our dads.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2010

  • Based on the theory of ready-mades she manages to deconstruct, decontextualise, reconstruct and recontextualise.

    DESIGNSPOTTER 2010

  • "effecient" and "a great player, nobody can deny that" and completely decontextualise it into a criticism.

    TEAMtalk Football News 2009

  • "effecient" and "a great player, nobody can deny that" and completely decontextualise it into a criticism.

    TEAMtalk Football News 2009

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